GRE Word List
SHARD
a piece or fragment of a brittle substance
The meaning of the word shard is a piece or fragment of a brittle substance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| providence | divine guidance or care |
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |
| litigation | the act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the act or process of litigating |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| appreciate | to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |