GRE Word List
WHITTLE
a large knife
The meaning of the word whittle is a large knife.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| recumbent | suggestive of repose : leaning |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
| concentric | having a common center |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| farce | stuff |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| debris | the remains of something broken down or destroyed |