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 |
|---|---|
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| clemency | disposition to be merciful and especially to moderate the severity of punishment due |
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| conflagration | fire |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| spasmodic | relating to or affected or characterized by spasm |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |