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 |
|---|---|
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| effulgent | radiant splendor : brilliance |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| dupe | one that is easily deceived or cheated : fool |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| brawny | muscular |
| lampoon | satire |