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 |
|---|---|
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| talisman | an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| deploy | to extend (a military unit) especially in width |
| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |
| equinox | either of the two points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic |