GRE Word List
SIFT
to put through a sieve
The meaning of the word sift is to put through a sieve.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
| fortuitous | occurring by chance |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| conspire | plot |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |