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 |
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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 |