GRE Word List
TREAD
to step or walk on or over
The meaning of the word tread is to step or walk on or over.
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| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
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| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| enumerate | to ascertain the number of : count |
| resolution | the act or process of resolving: such as |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |