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 |
|---|---|
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |
| aspirant | one who aspires |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| espouse | marry |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |