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 |
|---|---|
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| sear | being dried and withered |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| enterprising | marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act |