GRE Word List
GLEAN
to gather grain or other produce left by reapers
The meaning of the word glean is to gather grain or other produce left by reapers.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| historic | historical |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| pall | to lose strength or effectiveness |