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 |
|---|---|
| tremor | a trembling or shaking usually from physical weakness, emotional stress, or disease |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| tortuous | marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| halfhearted | lacking heart, spirit, or interest |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |