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grease, grease, Greece
grease (GREES) (noun)
A thick oily lubricant, vegetable, petroleum, or animal fat based: The contractor used grease on the metal parts to keep them from getting rusty.
grease (GREES) (verb)
To apply an oily lubricant to a surface: The chef had to grease the baking trays before he could bake the cookies.
Greece (GREES) (noun)
A peninsular country at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea: Caroline decided to go to Greece for her winter vacation.
Trisha went to Greece for her vacation and she was glad that the chef at the restaurant where she ate did not use much grease while cooking. He applied just a little bit of grease to the frying pans.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group G; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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“grease”
(Latin: pinguis, fat, grease)
(Latin: tallow, suet, fat, fatty; grease; by extension, "pertaining to a suetlike secretion of the body")