GRE Word List
RESIDUE
something that remains after a part is taken, separated, or designated or after the completion of a process : remnant
The meaning of the word residue is something that remains after a part is taken, separated, or designated or after the completion of a process : remnant.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apoplexy | stroke |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| providence | divine guidance or care |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| frieze | a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |