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 |
|---|---|
| tenure | the act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office) |
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |
| pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |