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 |
|---|---|
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| mural | of, relating to, or resembling a wall |
| chant | to make melodic sounds with the voice |
| minatory | having a menacing quality |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| avalanche | a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice |
| brand | a charred piece of wood |
| sleek | slick |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |