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 |
|---|---|
| erroneous | containing or characterized by error : mistaken |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| 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 |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| hortatory | hortative |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| convert | to bring over from one belief, view, or party to another |