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 |
|---|---|
| stalwart | marked by outstanding strength and vigor of body, mind, or spirit |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| protocol | an original draft, minute, or record of a document or transaction |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| preposterous | contrary to nature, reason, or common sense : absurd |
| compelling | that compels: such as |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| toll | a tax or fee paid for some liberty or privilege (as of passing over a highway or bridge) |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |