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 |
|---|---|
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |
| remission | the act or process of remitting |
| implication | something implied: such as |
| aphasia | loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |