GRE Word List
PRUNE
a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation
The meaning of the word prune is a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| discriminating | making a distinction : distinguishing |
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| bilk | to block the free development of : frustrate |