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 |
|---|---|
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| versatile | embracing a variety of subjects, fields, or skills |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| impenitent | not penitent |
| quail | any of numerous small gallinaceous birds: such as |
| comity | friendly social atmosphere : social harmony |
| impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |
| cartographer | one that makes maps |
| maroon | a dark red |