GRE Word List
SKIM
read or glance through quickly; touch lightly in passing; brush; remove from the surface of a liquid
The meaning of the word skim is read or glance through quickly; touch lightly in passing; brush; remove from the surface of a liquid.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| appellation | name; title |
| compress | force into less space; squeeze; contract; put into fewer words; N: thick mass of cloth pressed to part of the body to stop bleeding or swelling, reduce fever, etc. |
| lilliputian | extremely small; CF. Lilliput in Gulliver's Travels |
| high-flown | highly pretentious or inflated |
| pan | criticize harshly |
| negligence | neglect; failure to take reasonable care; ADJ. negligent: neglectful; lax; not taking enough care |
| disquietude | uneasiness; anxiety; V. disquiet: make anxious |
| epicurean | believing that pleasure is good and suffering is bad and should be avoided; N. |
| compliant | readily acting in accordance with a rule, order, or the wishes or others; yielding; comforming to requirements |
| dubious | questionable; (of something) causing doubt; (of someone) filled with doubt; N. dubiety |
