GRE Word List
EXHUME
disinter
The meaning of the word exhume is disinter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement |
| conservatory | a greenhouse for growing or displaying plants |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| heckler | one who heckles someone (such as a performer or speaker) usually by shouting criticisms or insults |
| distend | extend |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| luster | a glow of reflected light : sheen |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| avow | to declare assuredly |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |