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 |
|---|---|
| esteem | the regard in which one is held |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| disinterested | not having the mind or feelings engaged (see engaged |
| babble | to talk enthusiastically or excessively |
| ramp | a sloping way or plane: such as |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| outrage | an act of violence or brutality |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |