GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| canny | clever |
| snuffle | to snuff or sniff usually audibly and repeatedly |
| distend | extend |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| enrapture | to fill with delight |
| exude | to ooze out |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| swill | wash |