GRE Word List
STANCH
to check or stop the flowing of
The meaning of the word stanch is to check or stop the flowing of.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| attentive | mindful |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| rail | a bar extending from one post or support to another and serving as a guard or barrier |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| trance | stupor |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| disparage | to depreciate (see depreciate |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |