GRE Word List
SUPPLE
flexible; limber; pliant
The meaning of the word supple is flexible; limber; pliant.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stifle | suppress; extinguish; inhibit; smother or suffocate |
| patrimony | property inherited from a father |
| percussion | striking one object against another sharply; Ex. percussion instrument; N: striking together of two bodies; sound caused by percussion |
| lumber | move heavily or clumsily; Ex. The bear lumbered through the woods; N: timber |
| incarnate | endowed with flesh; invested with bodily form; personified; Ex. devil incarnate; V: give bodily form to; embody |
| objective | not influenced by emotions; fair; N: goal; aim |
| discriminate | distinguish; make distinctions on the basis of preference |
| presage | foretell; be a warning or sign of; N: presentiment; foreboding; omen |
| blues | state of depression or melancholy; style of slow, mournful music (evolved from southern Black American songs) |
| craft | skill (esp. with one's hands); skill in deceiving people; guile; ADJ. crafty: cleverly deceitful; cunning |
