GRE Word List
STAMMER
to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter
The meaning of the word stammer is to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| misconduct | mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| pander | to act as a pander |
| impuissance | weakness |