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 |
|---|---|
| ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| pensive | musingly or dreamily thoughtful |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |