GRE Word List
BRINK
edge
The meaning of the word brink is edge.
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enormity | an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act |
vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger |
sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
venue | locale |
cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
menagerie | a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition |
transcribe | to make a written copy of |