GRE Word List
STIPPLE
to engrave by means of dots and flicks
The meaning of the word stipple is to engrave by means of dots and flicks.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| woe | a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| giddy | dizzy |
| robust | having or exhibiting strength or vigorous health |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |