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 |
|---|---|
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| rightful | just |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| enamored | affected by strong feelings of love, admiration, or fascination |
| disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |