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 |
|---|---|
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| verbose | containing more words than necessary : wordy |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| unregenerate | not regenerate |
| tureen | a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |