GRE Word List
PIEBALD
composed of incongruous parts
The meaning of the word piebald is composed of incongruous parts.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nausea | a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit |
| conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |
| frivolous | of little weight or importance |
| tempestuous | of, relating to, or resembling a tempest : turbulent |
| precinct | a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| espionage | the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |