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 |
|---|---|
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| speck | a small discoloration or spot especially from stain or decay |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |