GRE Word List
WHITTLE
a large knife
The meaning of the word whittle is a large knife.
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| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| brisk | keenly alert : lively |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| vivacious | lively in temper, conduct, or spirit : sprightly |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| climactic | of, relating to, or constituting a climax |
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| denomination | an act of denominating |
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