GRE Word List
SHRIVEL
to draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture
The meaning of the word shrivel is to draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rapacious | excessively grasping or covetous |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| myopic | affected by myopia : of, relating to, or exhibiting myopia : nearsighted |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| vernal | of, relating to, or occurring in the spring |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| imbibe | drink |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| unassuaged | not quenched, eased, or satisfied : not assuaged |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |