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 |
|---|---|
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
| lap | a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment |
| pinnace | a light sailing ship |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |