GRE Word List
PLUME
a feather of a bird: such as
The meaning of the word plume is a feather of a bird: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
| scurvy | a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |