GRE Word List
FLOTSAM
floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo
The meaning of the word flotsam is floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cryptic | secret |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |
| remission | the act or process of remitting |
| benefit | something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being : advantage |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| herald | an official at a tournament of arms (see arm |
| cadet | a younger brother or son |
| impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |