GRE Word List
DALLY
to act playfully
The meaning of the word dally is to act playfully.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |
| fictitious | of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary |
| 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 |
| flotsam | floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |