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 |
|---|---|
| requisite | needed for a particular purpose : essential |
| resort | one that affords aid or refuge : resource |
| platonic | of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism |
| conclusive | of, relating to, or being a conclusion |
| contrive | devise |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| romp | one that romps |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |