GRE Word List
REND
to remove from place by violence : wrest
The meaning of the word rend is to remove from place by violence : wrest.
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|---|---|
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| tread | to step or walk on or over |
| encumber | weigh down |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| billowing | wave |
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| lewd | obscene |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |