GRE Word List
DEFILE
to make unclean or impure: such as
The meaning of the word defile is to make unclean or impure: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
| entrance | power or permission to enter : admission |
| stamp | to pound or crush with a pestle or a heavy instrument |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| astral | of, relating to, or coming from the stars |
| madrigal | a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form |