GRE Word List
SHEAR
to cut off the hair from
The meaning of the word shear is to cut off the hair from.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| paltry | inferior |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| heterogeneous | consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed |