GRE Word List
BEDIZEN
to dress or adorn gaudily
The meaning of the word bedizen is to dress or adorn gaudily.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| drastic | acting rapidly or violently |
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |
| jovial | characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |