GRE Word List
FLECK
streak
The meaning of the word fleck is streak.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| proxy | the agency, function, or office of a deputy who acts as a substitute for another |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| 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 |
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |
| expose | to deprive of shelter, protection, or care : subject to risk from a harmful action or condition |
| rave | to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| artisan | a worker who practices a trade or handicraft : craftsperson |