GRE Word List
MELLIFLUOUS
having a smooth rich flow
The meaning of the word mellifluous is having a smooth rich flow.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |
| gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| gamely | a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other |
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |