GRE Word List
FALTER
to walk unsteadily : stumble
The meaning of the word falter is to walk unsteadily : stumble.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| encroachment | to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |