GRE Word List
DELUGE
an overflowing of the land by water
The meaning of the word deluge is an overflowing of the land by water.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| skeptic | an adherent or advocate of skepticism |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| expatriate | banish |
| reckon | count |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |