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 |
|---|---|
| junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| auxiliary | offering or providing help |
| reparation | a repairing or keeping in repair |
| actuary | clerk |
| carapace | a bony or chitinous case or shield covering the back or part of the back of an animal (such as a turtle or crab) |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| harass | exhaust |