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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conundrum | an intricate and difficult problem |
| inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |
| demise | death |
| amplify | to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis |
| douse | to plunge into water |
| freebooter | pirate |
| subsistence | real being : existence |