GRE Word List
DESICCATE
to dry up
The meaning of the word desiccate is to dry up.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| seemly | good-looking |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| prolific | producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| vicar | an ecclesiastical agent: such as |
| clientele | a body of clients |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
| gratis | without charge or recompense : free |