GRE Word List
RIVULET
a small stream
The meaning of the word rivulet is a small stream.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inception | an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| anguish | extreme pain, distress, or anxiety |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |