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 |
|---|---|
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| deprecate | to express disapproval of |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| executioner | one who executes |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| allude | to make indirect reference |