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 |
|---|---|
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| smirk | to smile in a smug or condescending way |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
| tanner | one that tans hides |
| prurient | marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire |
| haven | harbor |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| jaunty | sprightly in manner or appearance : lively |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |