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 |
|---|---|
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| opalescent | reflecting an iridescent light |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |
| 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 |
| gloat | to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| solicitous | manifesting or expressing solicitude |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |