GRE Word List
LIGNEOUS
of or resembling wood
The meaning of the word ligneous is of or resembling wood.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| stygian | of or relating to the river Styx |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |