GRE Word List
SCUTTLE
a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce)
The meaning of the word scuttle is a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce).
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castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
incoherent | lacking coherence: such as |
ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |