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 |
|---|---|
| corporeal | having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| industrious | constantly, regularly, or habitually active or occupied : diligent |
| impinge | encroach |
| encompass | include |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| insurgent | a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government |
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |