GRE Word List
DAINTY
something delicious to the taste
The meaning of the word dainty is something delicious to the taste.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| commonwealth | a nation, state, or other political unit: such as |
| chase | the hunting of wild animals |
| 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 |
| convene | to come together in a body |
| solicitor | one that solicits |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |