GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cuisine | manner of preparing food : style of cooking |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| pilfer | steal |
| inroad | an advance or penetration often at the expense of someone or something |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |