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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| devoid | being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment |
| supererogatory | observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |