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 |
|---|---|
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| dilute | attenuate |
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |