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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| catholic | roman catholic |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| ecstasy | a state of overwhelming emotion |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |