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 |
|---|---|
| disquietude | anxiety |
| expedite | to accelerate the process or progress of : speed up |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
| incumbent | the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice |
| finished | entirely done |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| perceptive | responsive to sensory stimuli : discerning |