GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
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| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
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| dilute | attenuate |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| unilateral | done or undertaken by one person or party |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
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