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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| roue | a man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure : rake |
| mystic | mystical |
| miscellany | separate writings collected in one volume |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| jocose | given to joking : merry |
| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |