GRE Word List
SPATE
freshet
The meaning of the word spate is freshet.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| fanaticism | fanatic outlook or behavior |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| rumble | to make a low heavy rolling sound |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| yokel | a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |