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 |
|---|---|
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |
| lunar | crescent |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| arboretum | a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |