GRE Word List
TRIM
to remove by or as if by cutting
The meaning of the word trim is to remove by or as if by cutting.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vain | having or showing undue or excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements : conceited |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| graduated | marked with divisions indicating degrees or units of measurement |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| ashen | of, relating to, or made from ash wood |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |