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 |
|---|---|
| bludgeon | a short stick that usually has one thick or loaded end and is used as a weapon |
| lag | one that lags or is last |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| champion | a winner of first prize or first place in competition |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| filch | to steal secretly or casually |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |