GRE Word List
WHITTLE
a large knife
The meaning of the word whittle is a large knife.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| unregenerate | not regenerate |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| absolve | to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt |
| seedy | containing or full of seeds |