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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
