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 |
|---|---|
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| thespian | actor |
| optometrist | a specialist licensed to practice optometry compare ophthalmologist |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| underhand | in a clandestine manner |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| fledgling | a young bird just fledged (see fledge |