GRE Word List
SPATE
freshet
The meaning of the word spate is freshet.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| rational | having reason or understanding |
| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| aseptic | preventing infection |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |