GRE Word List
SPORADIC
occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances
The meaning of the word sporadic is occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| disparity | a noticeable and usually significant difference or dissimilarity |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |