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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| dexterous | mentally adroit and skillful : clever |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| dogged | marked by stubborn determination |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
