GRE Word List
FLORA
a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period
The meaning of the word flora is a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tutelary | having the guardianship of a person or a thing |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
| fluctuate | to shift back and forth uncertainly |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| speechless | unable to speak : dumb |
| interloper | one that interlopes: such as |
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |