GRE Word List
FLUTTER
to flap the wings rapidly
The meaning of the word flutter is to flap the wings rapidly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| frivolous | of little weight or importance |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| trenchant | keen |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |
| mediate | occupying a middle position |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |