GRE Word List
GARNER
to gather into storage
The meaning of the word garner is to gather into storage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |
| bar | a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |