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 |
|---|---|
| problematic | posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| mnemonic | assisting or intended to assist memory |
| token | a piece resembling a coin issued for use (as for fare on a bus) by a particular group on specified terms |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |