GRE Word List
SERE
being dried and withered
The meaning of the word sere is being dried and withered.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| checkered | marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials |
| portly | dignified |
| eulogistic | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |