GRE Word List
BURGEON
to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout
The meaning of the word burgeon is to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| torso | the human body apart from the head, neck, arms, and legs : the human trunk |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |