GRE Word List

SPATE

freshet

The meaning of the word spate is freshet.

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effronteryshameless boldness : insolence
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stringenttight
misnomerthe misnaming of a person in a legal instrument
quizzicalcomically quaint
sluicean artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow
representationalone that represents: such as
forgea furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy