GRE Word List
DEFOLIATE
to deprive of leaves especially prematurely
The meaning of the word defoliate is to deprive of leaves especially prematurely.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| soar | to fly aloft or about |
| rabble | a disorganized or confused collection of things |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| coalition | the act of coalescing : union |
| corroborate | to support with evidence or authority : make more certain |