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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| lunar | crescent |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| boor | peasant |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| tepid | moderately warm : lukewarm |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
| influx | a coming in |