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 |
|---|---|
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| aspersion | a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| occident | west |
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |