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 |
|---|---|
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| longevity | a long duration of individual life |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| unobtrusive | not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : inconspicuous |
| concurrent | operating or occurring at the same time |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| granulate | to form or crystallize into grains or granules |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |