GRE Word List
SHAVING
the act of one that shaves
The meaning of the word shaving is the act of one that shaves.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| spasmodic | relating to or affected or characterized by spasm |
| pendulous | poised without visible support |
| resumption | an act or instance of resuming : recommencement |
| prevalent | generally or widely accepted, practiced, or favored : widespread |
| cryptic | secret |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| 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 |