GRE Word List
FLIGHTY
swift
The meaning of the word flighty is swift.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| consternation | amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |