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 |
|---|---|
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| pliant | pliable |
| morose | having a sullen and gloomy disposition |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| notable | worthy of note : remarkable |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |