GRE Word List
WISP
a small handful (as of hay or straw)
The meaning of the word wisp is a small handful (as of hay or straw).
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pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |
integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
skulduggery | underhanded or unscrupulous behavior |
asymmetric | having two sides or halves that are not the same : not symmetrical |
evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |
antecede | precede |