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 |
|---|---|
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| canter | one who uses cant: such as |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity |
| tan | to make (skin) tan especially by exposure to the sun |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| broach | brooch |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| imperious | marked by arrogant assurance : domineering |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |