GRE Word List
WHITTLE
a large knife
The meaning of the word whittle is a large knife.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |
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| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
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| canine | a conical pointed tooth |
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| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
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