GRE Word List
SHADE
comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light
The meaning of the word shade is comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| cavalcade | a procession (see procession |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |