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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| enervate | lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor : enervated |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| covenant | a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| resentment | a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| crestfallen | having a drooping crest or hanging head |
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