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 |
|---|---|
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| prong | fork |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| tithe | a tenth part of something paid as a voluntary contribution or as a tax especially for the support of a religious establishment |
| seemly | good-looking |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| bevy | a large group or collection |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
| engender | beget |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |