GRE Word List
WHITTLE
a large knife
The meaning of the word whittle is a large knife.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stoke | to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel |
| juncture | a point of time |
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| invalid | not valid: |
| deploy | to extend (a military unit) especially in width |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |