GRE Word List
CHAFE
irritate
The meaning of the word chafe is irritate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| deploy | to extend (a military unit) especially in width |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |
| derelict | abandoned especially by the owner or occupant |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |