GRE Word List
DISFIGURE
to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries
The meaning of the word disfigure is to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| impervious | not allowing entrance or passage : impenetrable |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| dispirited | to deprive of morale or enthusiasm |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |