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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chasten | to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline |
| aspirant | one who aspires |
| elevation | the height to which something is elevated: such as |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| vigil | the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary |
| addle | rotten |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| gnome | maxim |