GRE Word List
PERSONIFY
to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers
The meaning of the word personify is to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| jumble | to move in a confused or disordered manner |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| cleave | to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly |
| elated | marked by high spirits : exultant |