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 |
|---|---|
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |
| snip | a small piece that is snipped off |
| mat | a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |
| asinine | extremely or utterly foolish or silly |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |