GRE Word List
GLUT
to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand
The meaning of the word glut is to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
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| militant | engaged in warfare or combat : fighting |
| disparity | a noticeable and usually significant difference or dissimilarity |
| jaunt | a usually short journey or excursion undertaken especially for pleasure |
| 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 |
| inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |