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 |
|---|---|
| forthcoming | being about to appear or to be produced or made available |
| magistrate | an official entrusted with administration of the laws: such as |
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| apprise | to give notice to : tell |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride |
| verbatim | in the exact words : word for word |