GRE Word List
DISPARATE
markedly distinct in quality or character
The meaning of the word disparate is markedly distinct in quality or character.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |
| bookish | of or relating to books |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| vignette | a picture (such as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper |
| 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 |
| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| coin | corner |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |