GRE Word List
PIECEMEAL
one piece at a time : gradually
The meaning of the word piecemeal is one piece at a time : gradually.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| untoward | difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly |
| expatriate | banish |
| menagerie | a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| lance | a steel-tipped spear carried by mounted knights or light cavalry |
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |