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 |
|---|---|
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| canker | an erosive or spreading sore |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| schism | division |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |