GRE Word List
SEAR
being dried and withered
The meaning of the word sear is being dried and withered.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| titanic | having great magnitude, force, or power : colossal |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| hierarchy | a division of angels |
| viper | a common Eurasian venomous snake (Vipera berus) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and is usually not fatal to humans |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |
| igneous | formed by solidification of magma |