GRE Word List
HONE
to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone
The meaning of the word hone is to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| illusive | based on or producing illusion : illusory |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| mediocre | of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance : ordinary |
| speechless | unable to speak : dumb |
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| amplify | to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis |
| brawny | muscular |
| sensuous | of or relating to the senses or sensible objects |