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 |
|---|---|
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| chase | the hunting of wild animals |
| gloss | a surface luster or brightness : shine |
| amok | an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malaysian culture but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior occurring worldwide in numerous countries and cultures |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| tan | to make (skin) tan especially by exposure to the sun |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |