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).
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
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| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| carat | a unit of fineness for gold equal to ¹/₂₄ part of pure gold in an alloy |
| repercussion | reflection |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| shove | to push along |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |