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.
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| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
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| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
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| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| congenial | pleasant |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
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| unfrock | defrock |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |