GRE Word List

DESICCATE

to dry up

The meaning of the word desiccate is to dry up.

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extenuateto lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate
gushto issue copiously or violently
felineof, relating to, or affecting cats or the cat family
defileto make unclean or impure: such as
codicila legal instrument made to modify an earlier will
immureto enclose within or as if within walls
orificean opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass
caulkto stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe)
poulticea soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions
crotchetygiven to crotchets (see crotchet