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 |
|---|---|
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| espionage | the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company |
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |
| plumb | a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| privy | private |