GRE Word List
REFURBISH
renovate; make clean, bright, or fresh (make new) again; make bright by polishing; Ex. refurbish an old theater; CF. furbish: polish
The meaning of the word refurbish is renovate; make clean, bright, or fresh (make new) again; make bright by polishing; Ex. refurbish an old theater; CF. furbish: polish.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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intolerant | not willing to accept ways of thinking different from one's own; CF. tolerant; CF. tolerate |
caricature | distortion; burlesque |
kinetic | producing motion; of motion |
poignancy | quality of being deeply moving; keenness of emotion; ADJ. poignant: touching; deeply moving; (of sorrow, grief, etc.) painful; keenly distressing to the mind; Ex. poignant memory/anxiety; CF. prick |
recumbent | reclining; lying down completely or in part |
desperado | reckless, desperate outlaw |
seethe | be violently disturbed; boil; (of a liquid) move about wildly as if boiling; Ex. The nation was seething with discontent. |
dictum | authoritative and weighty statement (made by a judge in court); saying; maxim; CF. obiter dictum: incidental, nonbinding remark (something said in passing) |
chauvinist | blindly devoted patriot; zealous adherent of a group, cause, or sex; ADJ. chauvinistic; CF. chauvinism; Nicolas Chauvin |
cistern | reservoir or water tank |