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 |
|---|---|
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| uproarious | marked by uproar |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| cohorts | companion |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |