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 |
|---|---|
| dally | to act playfully |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| incumbent | the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| puzzle | to offer or represent to (someone) a problem difficult to solve or a situation difficult to resolve : challenge mentally |
| brackish | somewhat salty |