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 |
|---|---|
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| appraise | to set a value on : to estimate the amount of |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |