GRE Word List
FLUSH
to fly away suddenly
The meaning of the word flush is to fly away suddenly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| equanimity | evenness of mind especially under stress |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| suspense | the state of being suspended : suspension |
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |