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 |
|---|---|
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| penchant | a strong and continued inclination |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| fumble | to grope for or handle something clumsily or aimlessly |
| porous | possessing or full of pores |
| cerebration | to use the mind : think |
| throes | pang |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |