GRE Word List
LEAVEN
a substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid
The meaning of the word leaven is a substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| parity | the quality or state of being equal or equivalent |
| dialectical | of, relating to, or in accordance with dialectic |
| subliminal | inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| flowery | of, relating to, or resembling flowers |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |