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 |
|---|---|
| auxiliary | offering or providing help |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |
| garish | clothed in vivid colors |
| confidant | one to whom secrets are entrusted |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |