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.
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| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
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| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
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| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |