GRE Word List
CORROSIVE
tending or having the power to corrode
The meaning of the word corrosive is tending or having the power to corrode.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| velocity | quickness of motion : speed |
| impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |
| decollete | wearing a strapless or low-necked dress |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
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