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 |
|---|---|
| arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
| rake | an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground |
| luster | a glow of reflected light : sheen |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
| docile | easily taught |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| parallelism | the quality or state of being parallel |