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 |
|---|---|
| flaccid | not firm or stiff |
| die | to pass from physical life : expire |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| fawning | seeking or used to seek approval or favor by means of flattery |
| egress | a place or means of going out : exit |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| subsequent | following in time, order, or place |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |