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 |
|---|---|
| muggy | being warm, damp, and close |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| clemency | disposition to be merciful and especially to moderate the severity of punishment due |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |