GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perpetual | continuing forever : everlasting |
| seep | to flow or pass slowly through fine pores or small openings : ooze |
| wade | to step in or through a medium (such as water) offering more resistance than air |
| betray | to lead astray |
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |
| endearment | a word or an act (such as a caress) expressing affection |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |