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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| maul | a heavy often wooden-headed hammer used especially for driving wedges |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| munificent | very liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow |
| headlong | headfirst |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |