GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| halcyon | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden |
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |
| befuddle | to muddle or stupefy with or as if with drink |
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| venal | capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration : purchasable |
| trenchant | keen |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |