GRE Word List
WAIF
a stray person or animal
The meaning of the word waif is a stray person or animal.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| sagacious | of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| belabor | to attack verbally |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |