GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |
| mellifluous | having a smooth rich flow |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |
| hereafter | after this in sequence or in time |
| beeline | a straight direct course |
| blowhard | an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity |
| generate | to bring into existence: such as |
| chivalrous | valiant |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |