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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| egregious | conspicuous |
| stint | a period of time spent at a particular activity |
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| 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 |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| rational | having reason or understanding |
| mass | the liturgy of the Eucharist (see eucharist |