GRE Word List
FRET
to eat or gnaw into : corrode
The meaning of the word fret is to eat or gnaw into : corrode.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| tome | book |
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| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| politic | political |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |