GRE Word List
FLICK
a light sharp jerky stroke or movement
The meaning of the word flick is a light sharp jerky stroke or movement.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
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| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| beneficial | producing good results or helpful effects : conferring benefits (see benefit |
| decipher | decode |
| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| queue | a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head |
| 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 |
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