GRE Word List
PLIABLE
supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking
The meaning of the word pliable is supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| bolster | a long pillow or cushion |
| appellation | an identifying name or title : designation |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| 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 |
| grimace | a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain |
| propulsive | tending or having power to propel |
| limber | having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body) : agile |
| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |