GRE Word List
DAWDLE
to spend time idly
The meaning of the word dawdle is to spend time idly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| timidity | lacking in courage or self-confidence |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| trance | stupor |
| obscure | dark |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
| slick | having a smooth surface : slippery |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| cadaverous | of or relating to a corpse |