GRE Word List
DESICCATE
to dry up
The meaning of the word desiccate is to dry up.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| feline | of, relating to, or affecting cats or the cat family |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| caulk | to 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) |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| crotchety | given to crotchets (see crotchet |