GRE Word List
SERE
being dried and withered
The meaning of the word sere is being dried and withered.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| apiculture | the keeping of bees especially on a large scale |
| academic | of, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher learning |
| recast | to cast again |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| mischance | bad luck |
| imprecation | curse |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |