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 |
|---|---|
| apotheosis | the perfect form or example of something : quintessence |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| unearthly | not earthly: such as |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| auroral | dawn |
| parallelism | the quality or state of being parallel |
| dull | tedious |
| irresolute | uncertain how to act or proceed : vacillating |