GRE Word List
DESICCATE
to dry up
The meaning of the word desiccate is to dry up.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gavel | rent or tribute in medieval England |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| marshal | a high official in the household of a medieval king, prince, or noble originally having charge of the cavalry but later usually in command of the military forces |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| askew | out of line : at an angle |
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| cloister | a monastic establishment |