GRE Word List
SERE
being dried and withered
The meaning of the word sere is being dried and withered.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| longevity | a long duration of individual life |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| gloat | to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight |
| engross | to copy or write in a large hand |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| canard | a false or unfounded report or story |