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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| retribution | recompense |
| doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
| remiss | negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |