GRE Word List
WITHER
to become dry and sapless
The meaning of the word wither is to become dry and sapless.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| osseous | bony |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| skimp | skimpy |
| hurl | rush |