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 |
|---|---|
| prominent | standing out or projecting beyond a surface or line : protuberant |
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| scotch | scottish |
| espouse | marry |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| vigil | the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary |