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 |
|---|---|
| exegesis | exposition |
| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |
| vindictive | disposed to seek revenge : vengeful |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
| engulf | to flow over and enclose : overwhelm |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |