GRE Word List
STRAGGLE
to wander from the direct course or way : rove
The meaning of the word straggle is to wander from the direct course or way : rove.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| mediocre | of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance : ordinary |
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| recapitulate | to retell or restate briefly : summarize |
| nicety | the quality or state of being nice |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |