GRE Word List
FLEET
a number of warships under a single command
The meaning of the word fleet is a number of warships under a single command.
Random words
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| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| slink | to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal |
| covenant | a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| 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 |
| dishearten | to cause to lose hope, enthusiasm, or courage : to cause to lose spirit or morale |
| discredit | to refuse to accept as true or accurate : disbelieve |