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 |
|---|---|
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| concentric | having a common center |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |