GRE Word List
RAFFLE
to engage in a raffle
The meaning of the word raffle is to engage in a raffle.
Random words
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| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| indomitable | incapable of being subdued : unconquerable |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| liaison | a binding or thickening agent used in cooking |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| champion | a winner of first prize or first place in competition |