GRE Word List
FLUSH
to fly away suddenly
The meaning of the word flush is to fly away suddenly.
Random words
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|---|---|
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| welter | writhe |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
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