GRE Word List
BUNGLE
to act or work clumsily and awkwardly
The meaning of the word bungle is to act or work clumsily and awkwardly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| reek | smoke |
| apropos | being both relevant and opportune |
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| fringe | an ornamental border consisting of short straight or twisted threads or strips hanging from cut or raveled edges or from a separate band |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |