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 |
|---|---|
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| amplify | to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis |
| recapitulate | to retell or restate briefly : summarize |
| spoof | deceive |
| puissant | having puissance : powerful |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| agglomeration | the action or process of collecting in a mass |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| evoke | to call forth or up: such as |