GRE Word List
MAUL
a heavy often wooden-headed hammer used especially for driving wedges
The meaning of the word maul is a heavy often wooden-headed hammer used especially for driving wedges.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| anomalous | inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected : irregular |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| buoyant | having buoyancy |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |
| accoutre | to provide with equipment or furnishings : outfit |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |