GRE Word List
RAFFLE
to engage in a raffle
The meaning of the word raffle is to engage in a raffle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| shade | comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| porous | possessing or full of pores |
| 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 |
| fumble | to grope for or handle something clumsily or aimlessly |
| selective | of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |