GRE Word List
SKIM
to clear (a liquid) of scum or floating substance
The meaning of the word skim is to clear (a liquid) of scum or floating substance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| lunar | crescent |
| auroral | dawn |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| serrated | notched or toothed on the edge |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| harangue | a speech addressed to a public assembly |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |