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 |
|---|---|
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| sophist | philosopher |
| inflated | distended with air or gas |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |