GRE Word List
DAPPLED
marked with small spots or patches contrasting with the background
The meaning of the word dappled is marked with small spots or patches contrasting with the background.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| natty | trimly neat and tidy : smart |
| urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |
| impart | to give, convey, or grant from or as if from a store |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| nauseate | to become affected with nausea |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| transition | a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| auroral | dawn |