GRE Word List
SEVER
to put or keep apart : divide
The meaning of the word sever is to put or keep apart : divide.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| anarchy | absence of government |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |