GRE Word List
SUNDER
to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space
The meaning of the word sunder is to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| dismantle | to disconnect the pieces of |
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| outgoing | going away : departing |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| catechism | oral instruction |
| mantle | a loose sleeveless garment worn over other clothes : cloak |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |