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 |
|---|---|
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| meter | systematically arranged and measured rhythm (see rhythm |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| primate | a bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |