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 |
|---|---|
| legacy | a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : bequest |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| impunity | exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| leniency | the quality or state of being lenient |
| occlude | to close up or block off : obstruct |
| protean | of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms |