GRE Word List
TENSILE
capable of tension : ductile
The meaning of the word tensile is capable of tension : ductile.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| demise | death |
| canard | a false or unfounded report or story |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| variegate | to diversify in external appearance especially with different colors : dapple |