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 |
|---|---|
| tactful | having or showing tact |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| feint | something feigned |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| pathological | of or relating to pathology |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |