GRE Word List
SPARE
not being used
The meaning of the word spare is not being used.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| timidity | lacking in courage or self-confidence |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| quicksilver | mercury |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| precinct | a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district |