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 |
|---|---|
| irate | roused to ire |
| invalidate | to make invalid |
| 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 |
| noisome | noxious |
| potentate | ruler |
| heedless | not taking heed : inconsiderate |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |