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 |
|---|---|
| mason | a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick) |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| metrical | of, relating to, or composed in meter |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| collected | gathered together |