GRE Word List
PLUCK
to pull or pick off or out
The meaning of the word pluck is to pull or pick off or out.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| deploy | to extend (a military unit) especially in width |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| taunt | to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| affiliation | the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc. |
| larceny | the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| revelry | noisy partying or merrymaking |