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 |
|---|---|
| receptive | able or inclined to receive |
| acumen | keenness and depth of perception, discernment, or discrimination especially in practical matters |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| sober | not intoxicated |
| drab | slattern |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |