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 |
|---|---|
| soar | to fly aloft or about |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| decry | to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly |
| deposition | a testifying especially before a court |
| dissection | the act or process of dissecting : the state of being dissected |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| advocate | one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| predetermine | foreordain |