GRE Word List
WHET
to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone)
The meaning of the word whet is to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| underhand | in a clandestine manner |
| upright | perpendicular |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| vassal | a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant |
| inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| grudge | to be unwilling to give or admit : give or allow reluctantly or resentfully |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| imbue | endow |