GRE Word List
WISPY
a small handful (as of hay or straw)
The meaning of the word wispy is a small handful (as of hay or straw).
Random words
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melee | a confused struggle |
tinge | a slight staining or suffusing shade or color |
officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
edifice | building |
topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
tranquillity | the quality or state of being tranquil |
title | the distinguishing name of a written, printed, or filmed production |
beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |