GRE Word List
CHECKERED
marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials
The meaning of the word checkered is marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
ossify | to change into bone |
saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |
nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
reminiscent | of the character of or relating to reminiscence |