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 |
|---|---|
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| contravene | to go or act contrary to : violate |
| warrant | sanction |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| quirk | an abrupt twist or curve |
| mollify | to soothe in temper or disposition : appease |
| tarnish | to dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| archipelago | an expanse of water with many scattered islands |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |