GRE Word List
STUMP
the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed
The meaning of the word stump is the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| fetter | a chain or shackle for the feet |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| 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 |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| pundit | pandit |