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 |
|---|---|
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| peremptory | putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay |
| provision | the act or process of providing |
| goad | to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad |
| indisputable | not disputable : unquestionable |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| lunar | crescent |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |