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 |
|---|---|
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| headlong | headfirst |
| hypochondriac | hypochondriacal |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |