GRE Word List
STACCATO
cut short or apart in performing : disconnected
The meaning of the word staccato is cut short or apart in performing : disconnected.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| fulsome | characterized by abundance : copious |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| privy | private |
| convene | to come together in a body |