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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| geniality | marked by or freely expressing sympathy or friendliness |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| unwieldy | not easily managed, handled, or used (as because of bulk, weight, complexity, or awkwardness) : cumbersome |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| convene | to come together in a body |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |
| terrestrial | of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |