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 |
|---|---|
| acclaim | applaud |
| spry | able to move quickly, easily, and lightly : nimble |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| reprobate | an unprincipled or depraved person : scoundrel |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |