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 |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| impassioned | filled with passion or zeal : showing great warmth or intensity of feeling |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| lavish | expending or bestowing profusely : prodigal |
| impeach | to charge with a crime or misdemeanor |
| 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 |
| amalgamate | to unite in or as if in an amalgam |
| infringe | to encroach upon in a way that violates law or the rights of another |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| hindmost | farthest to the rear : last |