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 |
|---|---|
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| graphic | of or relating to the pictorial arts |
| imprecation | curse |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| omniscient | having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight |
| balm | a balsamic (see balsamic |
| panacea | a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all |
| revelry | noisy partying or merrymaking |
| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |