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 |
|---|---|
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |
| artful | performed with or showing art or skill |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |
| implode | to burst inward |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| culmination | the action of culminating |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |
| mendicant | beggar |