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 |
|---|---|
| implode | to burst inward |
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| philanthropist | one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare : a person who practices philanthropy |
| nourish | nurture |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| 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 |
| adjacent | not distant : nearby |