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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| ventilate | to expose to air and especially to a current of fresh air for purifying, curing, or refreshing |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| gratify | to be a source of or give pleasure or satisfaction to |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| sleigh | an open usually horse-drawn vehicle with runners for use on snow or ice |
| elated | marked by high spirits : exultant |
| 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 |
| discompose | to destroy the composure of |