GRE Word List
DAIS
a raised platform (as in a hall or large room)
The meaning of the word dais is a raised platform (as in a hall or large room).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| braid | to make from braids |
| paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |
| illuminate | to supply or brighten with light |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| primal | original |