GRE Word List
REFURBISH
to brighten or freshen up : renovate
The meaning of the word refurbish is to brighten or freshen up : renovate.
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| exchequer | a department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| skulduggery | underhanded or unscrupulous behavior |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| insolence | the quality or state of being insolent |
| pensive | musingly or dreamily thoughtful |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |