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).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| check | to inspect, examine, or look at appraisingly or appreciatively |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| nurse | a person who cares for the sick or infirm |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| saunter | to walk about in an idle or leisurely manner : stroll |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |