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 |
|---|---|
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| engaging | tending to draw favorable attention or interest : attractive |
| compartment | a separate division or section |
| quip | a clever usually taunting remark : gibe |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| leeway | an allowable margin of freedom or variation : tolerance |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| plait | pleat |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| filth | foul or putrid matter |