GRE Word List
DAWDLE
to spend time idly
The meaning of the word dawdle is to spend time idly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bland | smooth and soothing in manner or quality |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| billow | wave |
| primary | first in order of time or development : primitive |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| roseate | resembling a rose especially in color |