GRE Word List
PILFER
steal
The meaning of the word pilfer is steal.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| scintilla | spark |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| existential | of, relating to, or affirming existence |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| misadventure | misfortune |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| uncouth | awkward and uncultivated in appearance, manner, or behavior : rude |