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 |
|---|---|
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| retinue | a group of retainers or attendants |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| indifferent | marked by a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern for something : apathetic |
| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| soar | to fly aloft or about |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
| somber | so shaded as to be dark and gloomy |