GRE Word List
WHIFF
a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray
The meaning of the word whiff is a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| untenable | not able to be defended |
| list | a simple series of words or numerals (such as the names of persons or objects) |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to a wife |
| metrical | of, relating to, or composed in meter |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| seemly | good-looking |