GRE Word List
SCRAP
fragments of discarded or leftover food
The meaning of the word scrap is fragments of discarded or leftover food.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| shack | hut |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| ferment | to undergo fermentation |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |