GRE Word List
STREW
to spread by scattering
The meaning of the word strew is to spread by scattering.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| preposterous | contrary to nature, reason, or common sense : absurd |
| dysentery | a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |