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 |
|---|---|
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| chasten | to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| droop | to hang or incline downward |
| frolic | full of fun : merry |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| urchin | hedgehog |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |