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.

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travailwork especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil
outstripto go faster or farther than
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sheafa quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together
provisionthe act or process of providing
outfitthe act of fitting out or equipping (as for a voyage or expedition)