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 |
|---|---|
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| exorbitant | not coming within the scope of the law |
| hurl | rush |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |