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 |
|---|---|
| freebooter | pirate |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| delirium | an acute (see acute |
| gusto | an individual or special taste |
| woeful | full of woe : grievous |
| inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| indulge | to yield to the desire of : humor |
| culmination | the action of culminating |