GRE Word List
BLIGHT
a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers)
The meaning of the word blight is a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tangible | capable of being perceived especially by the sense of touch : palpable |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| intermediary | mediator |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| fete | festival |