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 |
|---|---|
| temper | heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion |
| fete | festival |
| trance | stupor |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| aseptic | preventing infection |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |