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 |
|---|---|
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| sherbet | a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |