GRE Word List
BRISTLING
a short stiff coarse hair or filament
The meaning of the word bristling is a short stiff coarse hair or filament.
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|---|---|
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| tawdry | cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| noisome | noxious |
| martial | of, relating to, or suited for war or a warrior |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| mingle | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |