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 |
|---|---|
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |
| clime | climate |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| manifold | marked by diversity or variety |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| privy | private |