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 |
|---|---|
| representational | one that represents: such as |
| dolt | a stupid person |
| homespun | spun or made at home |
| blackball | to vote against |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |