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 |
|---|---|
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| terse | using few words : devoid of superfluity |
| gerrymander | the act or method of gerrymandering |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| skim | to clear (a liquid) of scum or floating substance |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| stilted | pompous |