GRE Word List
SCRAPS
fragments of discarded or leftover food
The meaning of the word scraps is fragments of discarded or leftover food.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| retrench | cut down |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| zeal | eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something : fervor |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |