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 |
|---|---|
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| furor | an angry or maniacal fit : rage |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console |
| conspiracy | the act of conspiring together |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| compulsive | having power to compel |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| crone | a cruel or ugly old woman |
| acuity | keenness of perception |