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 |
|---|---|
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| mingle | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| debutante | one making a debut (see debut |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |