GRE Word List
REBUFF
to reject or criticize sharply : snub
The meaning of the word rebuff is to reject or criticize sharply : snub.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| irate | roused to ire |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| crescendo | a gradual increase |
| scavenge | to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |