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 |
|---|---|
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| hatch | a small door or opening (as in an airplane or spaceship) |
| sleek | slick |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |