GRE Word List
MAR
to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil
The meaning of the word mar is to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recast | to cast again |
| shaving | the act of one that shaves |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| vital | of the utmost importance |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| incidental | being likely to ensue as a chance or minor consequence |