GRE Word List
SHARD
a piece or fragment of a brittle substance
The meaning of the word shard is a piece or fragment of a brittle substance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| filth | foul or putrid matter |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| court | the residence or establishment of a sovereign or similar dignitary |
