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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |
| odium | the state or fact of being subjected to hatred and contempt as a result of a despicable act or blameworthy circumstance |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| grotto | cave |
| pastiche | a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work |
| vital | of the utmost importance |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |