GRE Word List
BLANCH
to take the color out of
The meaning of the word blanch is to take the color out of.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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profligate | wildly extravagant |
conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
mote | a small particle : speck |
precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
abode | the place where one lives : home |
enervate | lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor : enervated |
balmy | having the qualities of balm : soothing |
weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |