GRE Word List
EXCORIATE
to wear off the skin of : abrade
The meaning of the word excoriate is to wear off the skin of : abrade.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| consternation | amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| adage | a saying often in metaphorical form that typically embodies a common observation |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| sybarite | voluptuary |