GRE Word List
HEW
to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument
The meaning of the word hew is to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
| irresolute | uncertain how to act or proceed : vacillating |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| trenchant | keen |
| deterrent | serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter |
| doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |