GRE Word List
SEAR
being dried and withered
The meaning of the word sear is being dried and withered.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
| manipulate | to treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner |
| palatial | of, relating to, or being a palace |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |
| sway | the action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed : an oscillating, fluctuating, or sweeping motion |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| overweening | arrogant |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| embrace | to clasp in the arms : hug |
| 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 |