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 |
|---|---|
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| demure | reserved |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| usage | firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| quizzical | comically quaint |