GRE Word List
SEAR
being dried and withered
The meaning of the word sear is being dried and withered.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| rife | prevalent especially to an increasing degree |
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |