GRE Word List
PILFER
steal
The meaning of the word pilfer is steal.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| bacchanal | orgy |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |
| sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |