GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ossify | to change into bone |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| congeal | to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold |
| sophist | philosopher |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |