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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| celestial | of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| opulence | wealth |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| crinkle | to form many short bends or ripples |