GRE Word List
WHITTLE
a large knife
The meaning of the word whittle is a large knife.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |
| ethereal | of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |
| variegated | having discrete markings of different colors |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| engaged | involved in activity : occupied |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| boor | peasant |
| executioner | one who executes |