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 |
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impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |
acuity | keenness of perception |
cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
unsavory | insipid |
predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |
poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
except | with the exclusion or exception of |
delusive | likely to delude |
dabble | to work or involve oneself superficially or intermittently especially in a secondary activity or interest |