GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| porous | possessing or full of pores |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| sear | being dried and withered |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| maritime | of, relating to, or bordering on the sea |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |