GRE Word List
BRUNT
the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack)
The meaning of the word brunt is the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack).
Random words
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podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |
sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
eccentricity | the quality or state of being eccentric |
concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
tarnish | to dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil |
infirmity | the quality or state of being infirm |
truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
rapacious | excessively grasping or covetous |
cardiologist | the study of the heart and its action and diseases |
pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |