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 |
|---|---|
| drip | to let fall in drops |
| insensate | lacking sense or understanding |
| comely | pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| vindicate | to free from allegation or blame |
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |