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 |
|---|---|
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| rife | prevalent especially to an increasing degree |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| bivouac | a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |