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 |
|---|---|
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| indissoluble | not dissoluble |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| recuperate | to get back : regain |
| droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |