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 |
|---|---|
| vulnerable | capable of being physically or emotionally wounded |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |
| craft | skill in planning, making, or executing : dexterity |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| droop | to hang or incline downward |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |