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 |
|---|---|
| devious | wandering |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| enunciate | to make a definite or systematic statement of |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| deprecate | to express disapproval of |
| reactionary | relating to, marked by, or favoring reaction |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |