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 |
|---|---|
| whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |
| contest | strive |
| clairvoyant | having clairvoyance : able to see beyond the range of ordinary perception |
| somber | so shaded as to be dark and gloomy |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| avow | to declare assuredly |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |