GRE Word List
SIFT
to put through a sieve
The meaning of the word sift is to put through a sieve.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| salubrious | favorable to or promoting health or well-being |
| fecundity | fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| hoodwink | to deceive by false appearance : dupe |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| prurient | marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |