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 |
|---|---|
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| denigrate | to attack the reputation of : defame |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| revert | to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject) |
| regatta | a rowing, speedboat, or sailing race or a series of such races |
| transcribe | to make a written copy of |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |