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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vouch | to supply supporting evidence or testimony |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| verity | the quality or state of being true or real |
| gibe | to utter taunting words |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| fancied | imagined or believed to be true or real |
| garnish | decorate |