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 |
|---|---|
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| maneuver | a military or naval movement |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |