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 |
|---|---|
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| retrench | cut down |
| simian | of, relating to, or resembling monkeys or apes |
| visage | the face, countenance, or appearance of a person or sometimes an animal |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| epithet | a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| incessant | continuing or following without interruption : unceasing |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |