GRE Word List
TAN
to make (skin) tan especially by exposure to the sun
The meaning of the word tan is to make (skin) tan especially by exposure to the sun.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| minion | a servile dependent, follower, or underling |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |