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 |
|---|---|
| beleaguer | besiege |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |