GRE Word List
FLIT
to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another
The meaning of the word flit is to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another.
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|---|---|
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| 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 |