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 |
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| 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 |
| quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| blurt | to utter abruptly and impulsively |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| sonic | utilizing, produced by, or relating to sound waves |
| satyr | a sylvan deity in Greek mythology having certain characteristics of a horse or goat and fond of Dionysian revelry |