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 |
|---|---|
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| skimp | skimpy |
| stink | to emit a strong offensive odor |
| ethnic | of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| audacious | intrepidly daring : adventurous |
| irate | roused to ire |