GRE Word List
ERODE
to diminish or destroy by degrees:
The meaning of the word erode is to diminish or destroy by degrees:.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
frantic | emotionally out of control |
doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
sleight | deceitful craftiness |
emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
consanguineous | of the same blood or origin |
fit | acceptable from a particular viewpoint (as of competence or morality) : proper |
pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |