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 |
|---|---|
| weather | the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness |
| disgorge | to discharge by the throat and mouth : vomit |
| musty | impaired by damp or mildew : moldy |
| volatile | characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
| extemporaneous | composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu |
| apiarist | beekeeper |
| laceration | the act of lacerating |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |