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 |
|---|---|
| dissection | the act or process of dissecting : the state of being dissected |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| fell | skin |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| indefatigable | incapable of being fatigued : untiring |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |