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 |
|---|---|
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| catapult | an ancient military device for hurling missiles |
| contagion | a contagious disease |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |