GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| persevere | to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement |
| doze | to sleep lightly |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| libertine | a freethinker especially in religious matters |
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |
| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |