GRE Word List
SPROUT
to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout
The meaning of the word sprout is to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unwarranted | lacking adequate or official support : not warranted : unjustified |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| fluke | flatfish |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |