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 |
|---|---|
| amenities | something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |