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 |
|---|---|
| affiliation | the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc. |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| leave-taking | departure |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| reckon | count |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |