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 |
|---|---|
| scion | descendant |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| precursor | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another |
| cross | a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| sumptuous | extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent |