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 |
|---|---|
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |
| cipher | zero |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| lampoon | satire |
| energize | to make energetic, vigorous, or active |
| slapdash | haphazard |