GRE Word List
WHITTLE
a large knife
The meaning of the word whittle is a large knife.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| addle | rotten |
| vilify | to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| practical | of, relating to, or manifested in practice or action : not theoretical or ideal |