GRE Word List
PARCHED
deprived of natural moisture
The meaning of the word parched is deprived of natural moisture.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| courier | messenger |
| vitreous | resembling glass (as in color, composition, brittleness, or luster) : glassy |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| feline | of, relating to, or affecting cats or the cat family |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| entomology | a branch of zoology that deals with insects |
| gibe | to utter taunting words |