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 |
|---|---|
| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| methodical | arranged, characterized by, or performed with method or order |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| 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 |
| tyranny | oppressive power |