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 |
|---|---|
| forfeit | something forfeited or subject to being forfeited (as for a crime, offense, or neglect of duty) : penalty |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
| spry | able to move quickly, easily, and lightly : nimble |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| panegyric | a eulogistic oration or writing |
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
| apostate | one who commits apostasy |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |