GRE Word List
BROOK
creek
The meaning of the word brook is creek.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| wretch | a miserable person : one who is profoundly unhappy or in great misfortune |
| ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| petty | having secondary rank or importance : minor |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |