GRE Word List
SPASMODIC
relating to or affected or characterized by spasm
The meaning of the word spasmodic is relating to or affected or characterized by spasm.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| affliction | a cause of persistent pain or distress |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| writ | something written : writing |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| precise | exactly or sharply defined or stated |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| bereft | deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| muster | a representative specimen (see specimen |