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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| susceptible | capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation |
| undermine | to subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| portend | to give an omen or anticipatory sign of |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |