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 |
|---|---|
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
| rave | to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |