GRE Word List
SCORCH
to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture
The meaning of the word scorch is to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apotheosis | the perfect form or example of something : quintessence |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| amphibian | an amphibious organism |
| charisma | a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader) |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
| kindred | of a similar nature or character : like |