GRE Word List
EVANESCENT
tending to vanish like vapor
The meaning of the word evanescent is tending to vanish like vapor.
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penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
enervate | lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor : enervated |
anthem | a song or hymn of praise or gladness |
dross | the scum or unwanted material that forms on the surface of molten metal |
cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
debunk | to expose the sham (see sham |
perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |