GRE Word List
SPARSE
of few and scattered elements
The meaning of the word sparse is of few and scattered elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| accommodate | to provide with something desired, needed, or suited |
| renown | a state of being widely acclaimed and highly honored : fame |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| potentate | ruler |
| galvanic | of, relating to, or producing a direct current of electricity |