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 |
|---|---|
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| protocol | an original draft, minute, or record of a document or transaction |
| scad | any of several carangid fishes (especially of the genus Decapterus) |
| enthrall | to hold spellbound : charm |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| vantage | a position giving a strategic advantage, commanding perspective, or comprehensive view |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |