GRE Word List
FLUTTER
to flap the wings rapidly
The meaning of the word flutter is to flap the wings rapidly.
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|---|---|
| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |
| check | to inspect, examine, or look at appraisingly or appreciatively |
| acoustics | a science that deals with the production, control, transmission, reception, and effects of sound |
| squabble | a noisy altercation or quarrel usually over petty matters |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| scabbard | a sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |