GRE Word List
CREST
a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration
The meaning of the word crest is a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| formidable | causing fear, dread, or apprehension |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| tithe | a tenth part of something paid as a voluntary contribution or as a tax especially for the support of a religious establishment |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |