GRE Word List
RAZE
to destroy to the ground : demolish
The meaning of the word raze is to destroy to the ground : demolish.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| undermine | to subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| peccadillo | a slight offense |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| discordant | being at variance : disagreeing |