GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lugubrious | mournful |
| tractable | capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled : docile |
| peevish | querulous in temperament or mood : fretful |
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| temperament | characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response |
| outwit | to get the better of by superior cleverness : outsmart |
| comprise | to be made up of |