GRE Word List
PILFER
steal
The meaning of the word pilfer is steal.
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| 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 |
| orgy | secret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |
| canker | an erosive or spreading sore |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| egregious | conspicuous |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |