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 |
|---|---|
| impassioned | filled with passion or zeal : showing great warmth or intensity of feeling |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| referendum | the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
| defect | an imperfection or abnormality that impairs quality, function, or utility : shortcoming |
| dint | force |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |