GRE Word List
ATTIRE
to put garments on : dress
The meaning of the word attire is to put garments on : dress.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| poise | balance |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| dissent | to withhold assent or approval |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| swipe | a strong sweeping blow |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| incoherent | lacking coherence: such as |