GRE Word List
SERE
being dried and withered
The meaning of the word sere is being dried and withered.
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travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
elevation | the height to which something is elevated: such as |
wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
itinerant | traveling from place to place |
indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
cession | a yielding to another : concession |
monochrome | a painting, drawing, or photograph in a single hue |