GRE Word List
TATTER
to make ragged
The meaning of the word tatter is to make ragged.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
wanton | merciless |
solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |
placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
giddy | dizzy |
anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |