GRE Word List
FLORESCENCE
a state or period of flourishing
The meaning of the word florescence is a state or period of flourishing.
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| turmoil | a state or condition of extreme confusion, agitation, or commotion |
| aloof | removed or distant either physically or emotionally |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| beware | to be on one's guard |
| 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 |
| homogeneous | of the same or a similar kind or nature |
| arrhythmic | lacking rhythm or regularity |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| spoof | deceive |