GRE Word List
BURNISH
to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing
The meaning of the word burnish is to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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carefree | free from care: such as |
compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
egress | a place or means of going out : exit |
perdition | eternal damnation |
violate | break |