GRE Word List
RASP
to rub with something rough
The meaning of the word rasp is to rub with something rough.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| tarnish | to dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil |
| edifice | building |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| zealot | a zealous person |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |