GRE Word List
SMEAR
a viscous or sticky substance
The meaning of the word smear is a viscous or sticky substance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| untenable | not able to be defended |
| ancillary | subordinate |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| turncoat | one who switches to an opposing side or party |
| eulogistic | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |