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 |
|---|---|
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| brisk | keenly alert : lively |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| implement | a device used in the performance of a task : tool |
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| apothegm | a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism |
| fussy | easily upset : irritable |