GRE Word List
FLUSH
to fly away suddenly
The meaning of the word flush is to fly away suddenly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| whittle | a large knife |
| shade | comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |