GRE Word List
FLECK
streak
The meaning of the word fleck is streak.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scowl | to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| bereaved | suffering the death of a loved one |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| pushy | aggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward |
| 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 |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| rivulet | a small stream |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |