GRE Word List
STRAGGLE
stray or fall behind (a main group); spread out in a scattered group; Ex. straggling marathon racer; Ex. straggling branch
The meaning of the word straggle is stray or fall behind (a main group); spread out in a scattered group; Ex. straggling marathon racer; Ex. straggling branch.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| comprehend | include; understand |
| fret | be annoyed or vexed; Ex. fret over your poor grades; N: irritation of mind; ADJ. fretful |
| undertaker | funeral director; one whose business is to arrange burials |
| vagrant | homeless wanderer |
| laud | praise; N. ADJ. laudable: praiseworthy; ADJ. laudatory: expressing praise |
| doggerel | poor verse |
| ostracize | banish from a group; exclude from public favor; ban; Ex. His friends ostracized him. N. ostracism |
| agrarian | pertaining to land or its cultivation; Ex. agrarian reform |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed; provisional; experimental; uncertain; hesitant; not definite or positive; Ex. tentative agreement/reply |
| grandiloquent | (of a person or speech) using high sounding or important-sounding language; pompous; bombastic |
