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 |
|---|---|
| fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |
| egregious | conspicuous |
| spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |
| putrid | being in a state of putrefaction : rotten |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |