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 |
|---|---|
| ethnic | of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |
| nourishment | food |
| dally | to act playfully |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| libidinous | having or marked by lustful desires : lascivious |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |
| proscenium | the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theater |