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 |
|---|---|
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| concur | to express agreement |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
| prong | fork |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |