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 |
|---|---|
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| jug | a large deep container (as of glass, earthenware, or plastic) with a narrow mouth and a handle |
| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
| fete | festival |
| wrinkle | a small ridge or furrow especially when formed on a surface by the shrinking or contraction of a smooth substance : crease |
| lag | one that lags or is last |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| bewitch | to influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft |