GRE Word List
WAFFLE
a crisp cake of batter baked in a waffle iron
The meaning of the word waffle is a crisp cake of batter baked in a waffle iron.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| formidable | causing fear, dread, or apprehension |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| turncoat | one who switches to an opposing side or party |
| irascible | marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |