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 |
|---|---|
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| ecologist | a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments |
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| varnish | a liquid preparation that when applied to a surface dries to form a hard lustrous typically transparent coating |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |