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 |
|---|---|
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| galaxy | milky way galaxy |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| uncouth | awkward and uncultivated in appearance, manner, or behavior : rude |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |