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 |
|---|---|
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| leeway | an allowable margin of freedom or variation : tolerance |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| succor | relief |
| invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |
| heed | to pay attention |