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 |
|---|---|
| apoplexy | stroke |
| pending | during |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| implode | to burst inward |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |