GRE Word List

DEFACE

to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details

The meaning of the word deface is to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details.

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WordMeaning
eschewto avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun
pugilistfighter
bandyto discuss lightly or banteringly
pernicioushighly injurious or destructive : deadly
hysteriaa psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral
commemorateto call to remembrance
synchronoushappening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time
incentivesomething that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action
dodderingfeeble
beneficiarya person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something