GRE Word List
DESICCATE
to dry up
The meaning of the word desiccate is to dry up.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bluff | having a broad flattened front |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| diadem | crown |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| corroborate | to support with evidence or authority : make more certain |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |