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 |
|---|---|
| tender | marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions : fond |
| unequivocal | leaving no doubt : clear |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| demise | death |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| solitude | the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| cemetery | a burial ground |
| clamor | noisy shouting |