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 |
|---|---|
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
| recuperate | to get back : regain |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| inveigle | to win over by wiles : entice |