GRE Word List
STREW
to spread by scattering
The meaning of the word strew is to spread by scattering.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| vivacious | lively in temper, conduct, or spirit : sprightly |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| agrarian | of or relating to fields or lands or their tenure |
| fester | to generate pus |
| ulcer | a break in skin or mucous membrane with loss of surface tissue, disintegration and necrosis of epithelial tissue, and often pus |