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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WordMeaning
vetoan authoritative prohibition : interdiction
contraveneto go or act contrary to : violate
warrantsanction
inchoatebeing only partly in existence or operation : incipient
quirkan abrupt twist or curve
mollifyto soothe in temper or disposition : appease
tarnishto dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil
hysteriaa psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral
archipelagoan expanse of water with many scattered islands
litotesunderstatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy")