GRE Word List
SPOILSPORT
one who spoils the sport or pleasure of others
The meaning of the word spoilsport is one who spoils the sport or pleasure of others.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| impeach | to charge with a crime or misdemeanor |
| apotheosis | the perfect form or example of something : quintessence |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| congenial | pleasant |
| compress | to press or squeeze together |
| fuddle | booze |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |