GRE Word List
SERE
being dried and withered
The meaning of the word sere is being dried and withered.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| ordination | the act or an instance of ordaining : the state of being ordained |
| valedictory | of or relating to a valediction : expressing or containing a farewell |
| peerless | matchless |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| putrid | being in a state of putrefaction : rotten |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |