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 |
|---|---|
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| fuddle | booze |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| recital | a detailed account : enumeration |
| intermediary | mediator |