GRE Word List
CORRODE
to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing
The meaning of the word corrode is to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| crestfallen | having a drooping crest or hanging head |
| chasm | a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge |
| nonplus | a state of bafflement or perplexity : quandary |
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| plaudit | an act or round of applause |