GRE Word List
SCUTTLE
a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce)
The meaning of the word scuttle is a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| 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 |
| scrimmage | a minor battle : skirmish |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| implication | something implied: such as |
| deposition | a testifying especially before a court |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |