GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| padre | a Christian clergyman |
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| unexceptionable | not open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| parched | deprived of natural moisture |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| woeful | full of woe : grievous |