GRE Word List
SCAFFOLD
a temporary or movable platform for workers (such as bricklayers, painters, or miners) to stand or sit on when working at a height above the floor or ground
The meaning of the word scaffold is a temporary or movable platform for workers (such as bricklayers, painters, or miners) to stand or sit on when working at a height above the floor or ground.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jibe | to be in accord : agree |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| defer | put off |
| ramification | branch |