GRE Word List
MOTLEY
variegated in color
The meaning of the word motley is variegated in color.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| blues | low spirits : melancholy |
| modulate | to tune to a key or pitch |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| laggard | lagging or tending to lag : slow especially compared to others of the same kind |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| score | twenty |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |