GRE Word List
HEM
a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down
The meaning of the word hem is a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vindicate | to free from allegation or blame |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| satiate | filled to satiety |
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| prolific | producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful |
| fiend | devil |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| throes | pang |