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 |
|---|---|
| elevation | the height to which something is elevated: such as |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| conclusive | of, relating to, or being a conclusion |
| skeptic | an adherent or advocate of skepticism |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| chasten | to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |