GRE Word List
PLUMAGE
the feathers of a bird
The meaning of the word plumage is the feathers of a bird.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| problematic | posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| eventual | contingent |
| detraction | a lessening of reputation or esteem especially by envious, malicious, or petty criticism : belittling |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| brook | creek |
| untenable | not able to be defended |