GRE Word List
THRIVE
to grow vigorously : flourish
The meaning of the word thrive is to grow vigorously : flourish.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rapacious | excessively grasping or covetous |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| idle | not occupied or employed: such as |
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| infantile | of or relating to infants or infancy |
| clarion | a medieval trumpet with clear shrill tones |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |