GRE Word List
SPATE
freshet
The meaning of the word spate is freshet.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| canter | one who uses cant: such as |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |
| contest | strive |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| bacchanalian | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| agglomeration | the action or process of collecting in a mass |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |