GRE Word List
PILFER
steal
The meaning of the word pilfer is steal.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
| nihilist | a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless |
| entail | to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| accommodate | to provide with something desired, needed, or suited |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| quail | any of numerous small gallinaceous birds: such as |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |