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 |
|---|---|
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| righteous | acting in accord with divine or moral law : free from guilt or sin |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |
| actuary | clerk |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| cliche | a trite phrase or expression |