GRE Word List
RAFFLE
to engage in a raffle
The meaning of the word raffle is to engage in a raffle.
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|---|---|
| discriminate | to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| variegated | having discrete markings of different colors |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| hortatory | hortative |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| apothegm | a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism |