GRE Word List
GILD
to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold
The meaning of the word gild is to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| indict | to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law |
| rig | to fit out with rigging |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| reparable | capable of being repaired |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| arraign | to call (a defendant) before a court to answer to an indictment : charge |
| hue_and_cry | outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule |