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 |
|---|---|
| fecundity | fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific |
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| crossbreed | hybridize |
| metaphysical | of or relating to metaphysics |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| papyrus | a tall perennial sedge (Cyperus papyrus) of the Nile valley |