GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| plait | pleat |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| tatter | to make ragged |
| unequivocal | leaving no doubt : clear |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |