GRE Word List
PIEBALD
composed of incongruous parts
The meaning of the word piebald is composed of incongruous parts.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| insurgent | a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |