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 |
|---|---|
| cataclysm | flood |
| mawkish | lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| effectuate | to cause or bring about (something) : to put (something) into effect or operation : effect |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| bulge | to jut out : swell |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |