GRE Word List
SCAVENGE
to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area
The meaning of the word scavenge is to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| husband | a male partner in a marriage |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| clamber | to climb awkwardly or with effort especially by using both the hands and the feet |
| uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to a wife |
| outwit | to get the better of by superior cleverness : outsmart |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |