GRE Word List
EXHUME
disinter
The meaning of the word exhume is disinter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
| capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| terminology | the technical or special terms used in a business, art, science, or special subject |
| petty | having secondary rank or importance : minor |