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 |
|---|---|
| haunt | to visit often : frequent |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| reciprocate | to give and take mutually |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |