GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discombobulated | characterized by confusion or disorder |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
| cue | the letter q |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| porridge | a soft food made by boiling meal of grains or legumes in milk or water until thick |