GRE Word List
FLUSH
to fly away suddenly
The meaning of the word flush is to fly away suddenly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| trance | stupor |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| elusive | tending to elude: such as |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |