GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pensive | musingly or dreamily thoughtful |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| quarry | game |
| molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |
| laceration | the act of lacerating |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
| discompose | to destroy the composure of |
| premeditate | to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |