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).
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reek | smoke |
concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
sedition | incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority |
prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
cross | a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution |
sordid | marked by baseness or grossness : vile |
garner | to gather into storage |
umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |