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 |
|---|---|
| foppish | foolish |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| graphic | of or relating to the pictorial arts |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |
| impervious | not allowing entrance or passage : impenetrable |