GRE Word List
SMATTERING
superficial piecemeal knowledge
The meaning of the word smattering is superficial piecemeal knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| graduated | marked with divisions indicating degrees or units of measurement |
| sultry | very hot and humid : sweltering |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| enterprise | a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| droop | to hang or incline downward |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |