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 |
|---|---|
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
| exasperate | to cause irritation or annoyance to |
| careen | to put (a ship or boat) on a beach especially in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |