GRE Word List
DIGNITARY
one who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor
The meaning of the word dignitary is one who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
| sluggish | averse to activity or exertion : indolent |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| queue | a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |