GRE Word List
PURSE
a small bag for money
The meaning of the word purse is a small bag for money.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| appall | to overcome with consternation, shock, or dismay |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |