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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| mete | to give out by measure : dole out |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| culprit | one accused of or charged with a crime |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| crave | to ask for earnestly : beg |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |