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 |
|---|---|
| swamp | a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water |
| fell | skin |
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| sextant | an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude) |
| pulmonary | of, relating to, affecting, or occurring in the lungs |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| rail | a bar extending from one post or support to another and serving as a guard or barrier |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |