GRE Word List
PLIANT
pliable
The meaning of the word pliant is pliable.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| 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 |
| dyslexia | a variable often familial learning disability involving difficulties in acquiring and processing language that is typically manifested by a lack of proficiency in reading, spelling, and writing |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| nautical | of, relating to, or associated with seamen, navigation, or ships |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |