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 |
|---|---|
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| putrid | being in a state of putrefaction : rotten |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| feign | to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression |
| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |