GRE Word List
DESICCATE
to dry up
The meaning of the word desiccate is to dry up.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| effectuate | to cause or bring about (something) : to put (something) into effect or operation : effect |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |
| complement | something that fills up, completes, or makes better or perfect |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| rig | to fit out with rigging |
| bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
| tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |