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 |
|---|---|
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| remission | the act or process of remitting |
| snuffle | to snuff or sniff usually audibly and repeatedly |
| patent | open to public inspection |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| homogeneous | of the same or a similar kind or nature |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |