GRE Word List
DILATORY
tending or intended to cause delay
The meaning of the word dilatory is tending or intended to cause delay.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| termination | end in time or existence : conclusion |
| precis | a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| indefatigable | incapable of being fatigued : untiring |
| warrant | sanction |