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 |
|---|---|
| rip | to tear or split apart or open |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| quarry | game |
| pore | to gaze intently |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |
| amnesty | the act of an authority (such as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| zephyr | a breeze from the west |