GRE Word List
PUTREFY
to make putrid
The meaning of the word putrefy is to make putrid.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |
| libertine | a freethinker especially in religious matters |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |