GRE Word List
WITHER
to become dry and sapless
The meaning of the word wither is to become dry and sapless.
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|---|---|
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
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| polity | political organization |
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| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
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| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |