GRE Word List
SKIFF
any of various small boats
The meaning of the word skiff is any of various small boats.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| encumber | weigh down |
| mirth | gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| turncoat | one who switches to an opposing side or party |
| bout | a spell or period of activity: such as |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| chant | to make melodic sounds with the voice |