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 |
|---|---|
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| clout | a piece of cloth or leather : rag |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| miserly | of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| academic | of, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher learning |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| distort | to twist (see twist |