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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |
| clarion | a medieval trumpet with clear shrill tones |
| mulct | fine |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| ebullient | boiling |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| sly | wise in practical affairs |
| procurement | the act or process of procuring |