GRE Word List
THRESH
to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically
The meaning of the word thresh is to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically.
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| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| shade | comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light |
| exchequer | a department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| tread | to step or walk on or over |
| armada | a fleet of warships |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |