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 |
|---|---|
| preponderance | a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength |
| conducive | tending to promote or assist |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
| perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |