GRE Word List
WINNOW
to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air
The meaning of the word winnow is to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| quench | put out |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| hurl | rush |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| momentum | a property (see property |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| titanic | having great magnitude, force, or power : colossal |