GRE Word List
SEAR
being dried and withered
The meaning of the word sear is being dried and withered.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prolific | producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful |
| intrigue | the practice of engaging in secret schemes |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |