GRE Word List
DECANT
to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers
The meaning of the word decant is to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malicious | having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |
| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| residual | remainder |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| courier | messenger |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |