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 |
|---|---|
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| incumbent | the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice |
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |