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 |
|---|---|
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| provenance | origin |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| plumb | a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction |
| qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| balm | a balsamic (see balsamic |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |