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 |
|---|---|
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| kismet | fate |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |
| existential | of, relating to, or affirming existence |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |