GRE Word List
SHED
to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted
The meaning of the word shed is to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| contrive | devise |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |