GRE Word List
CARPING
marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism
The meaning of the word carping is marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |
| scrimmage | a minor battle : skirmish |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |