GRE Word List
FLUKE
flatfish
The meaning of the word fluke is flatfish.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| convene | to come together in a body |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |