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 |
|---|---|
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| postulate | demand |
| glib | showing little forethought or preparation : offhand |
| stately | marked by lofty or imposing dignity |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| dire | exciting horror |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| tessellated | having a checkered appearance |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |