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

WordMeaning
grandiloquenta lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language
latitudeangular distance from some specified circle or plane of reference: such as
irremediablenot remediable
punitiveinflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment
wantonmerciless
compliancethe act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion
disjointedbeing thrown out of orderly function
squalorthe quality or state of being squalid
instigateto goad or urge forward : provoke
hullthe outer covering of a fruit or seed