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 |
|---|---|
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| unearthly | not earthly: such as |
| combustible | capable of combustion |
| distend | extend |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
| adjacent | not distant : nearby |
| suppliant | supplicant |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |