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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WordMeaning
mutilateto cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect
derideto laugh at or insult contemptuously
requisitionthe act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action
boostto push or shove up from below
decompositionto separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds
putridbeing in a state of putrefaction : rotten
empathythe 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
ellipsisthe omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete
feignto give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression
swear-wordword considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody''