GRE Word List
SULLY
to make soiled or tarnished : defile
The meaning of the word sully is to make soiled or tarnished : defile.
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casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
accede | to express approval or give consent : to agree to a request or demand |
valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
accord | to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned |
unfaltering | not wavering or weakening : firm |
languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
natal | native |