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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mantle | a loose sleeveless garment worn over other clothes : cloak |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |
| verge | brink |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| vertex | the top of the head |