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 |
|---|---|
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| log | a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree |
| perpetual | continuing forever : everlasting |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| puerile | juvenile |
| parochial | of or relating to a church parish |
| bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
| growl | rumble |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |