GRE Word List
RASP
to rub with something rough
The meaning of the word rasp is to rub with something rough.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| meander | a winding path or course |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| frieze | a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface |
| psychiatrist | a medical doctor who diagnoses and treats mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders : a specialist in psychiatry |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| preponderance | a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength |
| primal | original |
| regatta | a rowing, speedboat, or sailing race or a series of such races |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |