GRE Word List
PLIANT
pliable
The meaning of the word pliant is pliable.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| headfirst | with the head foremost |
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |
| sever | to put or keep apart : divide |
| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
| seasoned | a time characterized by a particular circumstance or feature |
| raspy | harsh |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |