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 |
|---|---|
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
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