GRE Word List
SPATE
freshet
The meaning of the word spate is freshet.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| bemused | marked by confusion or bewilderment : dazed |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| arraign | to call (a defendant) before a court to answer to an indictment : charge |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| reverie | daydream |
| outlook | a place offering a view |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |