GRE Word List
THRIVE
to grow vigorously : flourish
The meaning of the word thrive is to grow vigorously : flourish.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fester | to generate pus |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| retrench | cut down |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |