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 |
|---|---|
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| din | a loud continued noise |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| appease | pacify |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |