GRE Word List
SHEATHE
to put into or furnish with a sheath
The meaning of the word sheathe is to put into or furnish with a sheath.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |
| encumber | weigh down |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |