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 |
|---|---|
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| coin | corner |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| dysentery | a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection |
| filch | to steal secretly or casually |