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 |
|---|---|
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| swamp | a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water |
| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |
| disingenuous | lacking in candor |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |