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 |
|---|---|
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |
| florescence | a state or period of flourishing |
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| retribution | recompense |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |