GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| timidity | lacking in courage or self-confidence |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| somnambulist | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (such as walking) are performed |
| aviary | a place for keeping birds confined |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| vigilant | alertly watchful especially to avoid danger |
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |