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 |
|---|---|
| traumatic | psychologically or emotionally stressful in a way that can lead to serious mental and emotional problems |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| scabbard | a sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet |
| calorific | caloric |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |