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 |
|---|---|
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| bearing | the manner in which one behaves or comports oneself : the manner in which one bears (see bear |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| comity | friendly social atmosphere : social harmony |
| sidetrack | siding |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |