GRE Word List
RAKE
an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground
The meaning of the word rake is an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| loll | to hang loosely or laxly : droop |
| 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 |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |
| reverie | daydream |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| scion | descendant |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |