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 |
|---|---|
| vigil | the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| incontrovertible | not open to question : indisputable |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| stringent | tight |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |