GRE Word List
PILFER
steal
The meaning of the word pilfer is steal.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| betray | to lead astray |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |