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 |
|---|---|
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| antipathy | a strong feeling of dislike |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| palatable | agreeable to the palate or taste |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |