GRE Word List
PILLAGE
the act of looting or plundering especially in war
The meaning of the word pillage is the act of looting or plundering especially in war.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| bereft | deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| entity | being |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| acknowledge | to recognize the rights, authority, or status of |