GRE Word List
ASPERSION
a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation
The meaning of the word aspersion is a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reputable | enjoying good repute : held in esteem |
| maroon | a dark red |
| ramification | branch |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| abate | to decrease in force or intensity |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| unfledged | not feathered : not ready for flight |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| fodder | something fed to domestic animals |
| rampant | rearing upon the hind legs with forelegs extended |