GRE Word List
FLORESCENCE
a state or period of flourishing
The meaning of the word florescence is a state or period of flourishing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| retrench | cut down |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| diva | prima donna |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| hindmost | farthest to the rear : last |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |