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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perceptive | responsive to sensory stimuli : discerning |
| philology | the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature |
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| docket | a brief written summary of a document : abstract |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| appease | pacify |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| insouciant | lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| hurl | rush |