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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| equanimity | evenness of mind especially under stress |
| pied | of two or more colors in blotches |
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| daub | to cover or coat with soft adhesive matter : plaster |