GRE Word List
FLEDGLING
a young bird just fledged (see fledge
The meaning of the word fledgling is a young bird just fledged (see fledge.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| luscious | having a delicious taste or smell : sweet |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| postulate | demand |
| faction | a party or group (as within a government) that is often contentious or self-seeking : clique |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |