GRE Word List
PLIGHT
to put or give in pledge : engage
The meaning of the word plight is to put or give in pledge : engage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| illusion | a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| pulmonary | of, relating to, affecting, or occurring in the lungs |
| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
| diurnal | active chiefly in the daytime |