GRE Word List
DAWDLE
to spend time idly
The meaning of the word dawdle is to spend time idly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| appease | pacify |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| repulse | to drive or beat back : repel |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| gruff | rough, brusque, or stern in manner, speech, or aspect |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| vixen | a female fox |
| clemency | disposition to be merciful and especially to moderate the severity of punishment due |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |