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 |
|---|---|
| touchstone | a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |
| cartographer | one that makes maps |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| vortex | something that resembles a whirlpool |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |
| cliche | a trite phrase or expression |