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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| wane | to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle |
| itinerary | the route of a journey or tour or the proposed outline of one |
| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| galaxy | milky way galaxy |
| pry | to look closely or inquisitively |
| faculty | ability |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |