GRE Word List
SULLY
to make soiled or tarnished : defile
The meaning of the word sully is to make soiled or tarnished : defile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |
| guffaw | a loud or boisterous burst of laughter |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| impassive | giving no sign of feeling or emotion : expressionless |
| writhe | to twist into coils or folds |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| valid | having legal efficacy or force |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |