GRE Word List
SERE
being dried and withered
The meaning of the word sere is being dried and withered.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| actuary | clerk |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |