GRE Word List
CHISEL
a metal tool with a sharpened edge at one end used to chip, carve, or cut into a solid material (such as wood, stone, or metal)
The meaning of the word chisel is a metal tool with a sharpened edge at one end used to chip, carve, or cut into a solid material (such as wood, stone, or metal).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |