GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| gist | essence; main point; substance |
| dissent | to withhold assent or approval |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| discerning | showing insight and understanding : discriminating |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |