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 |
|---|---|
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| forlorn | bereft |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| antipathy | a strong feeling of dislike |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| headstrong | not easily restrained : impatient of control, advice, or suggestions |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| irresolute | uncertain how to act or proceed : vacillating |
| entail | to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result |