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 |
|---|---|
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
| filibuster | an irregular military adventurer |
| 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 |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| scrupulous | having moral integrity : acting in strict regard for what is considered right or proper |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| cameo | a gem carved in relief (see relief |