GRE Word List
CONFLUENCE
a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point
The meaning of the word confluence is a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| titillate | to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation |
| boor | peasant |
| gruff | rough, brusque, or stern in manner, speech, or aspect |
| porridge | a soft food made by boiling meal of grains or legumes in milk or water until thick |
| resort | one that affords aid or refuge : resource |
| flaccid | not firm or stiff |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
| retract | to draw back or in |