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 |
|---|---|
| disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |
| emblazon | to inscribe or adorn with or as if with heraldic bearings or devices |
| dissolution | the act or process of dissolving: such as |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |
| aphasia | loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) |
| mote | a small particle : speck |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |