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 |
|---|---|
| august | marked by majestic dignity or grandeur |
| compound | something formed by a union of elements or parts |
| mandate | an authoritative command |
| chore | the regular or daily light work of a household or farm |
| suckle | to give milk to from the breast or udder |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| gibe | to utter taunting words |