GRE Word List
FLOURISH
to grow luxuriantly : thrive
The meaning of the word flourish is to grow luxuriantly : thrive.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| acknowledge | to recognize the rights, authority, or status of |
| leniency | the quality or state of being lenient |
| frock | an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| combustible | capable of combustion |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |