GRE Word List
ATTIRE
to put garments on : dress
The meaning of the word attire is to put garments on : dress.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| disjointed | being thrown out of orderly function |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| internecine | of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group |
| fabricate | invent |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |