GRE Word List
TAPER
to become progressively smaller toward one end
The meaning of the word taper is to become progressively smaller toward one end.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chase | the hunting of wild animals |
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| marrow | bone marrow |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| sinuous | of a serpentine or wavy form : winding |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| coalesce | to grow together |