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 |
|---|---|
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |
| evince | to constitute outward evidence of |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| appellation | an identifying name or title : designation |