GRE Word List
FLAIL
a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely
The meaning of the word flail is a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| chafe | irritate |
| dys- | abnormal |
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| slur | an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo : aspersion |
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |