GRE Word List
RAZE
to destroy to the ground : demolish
The meaning of the word raze is to destroy to the ground : demolish.
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| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| credence | mental acceptance as true or real |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| appraise | to set a value on : to estimate the amount of |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |