GRE Word List
MUTTER
to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed
The meaning of the word mutter is to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| crass | gross |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |