GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indisputable | not disputable : unquestionable |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |