GRE Word List
DILETTANTE
a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler
The meaning of the word dilettante is a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| poignancy | the quality or state of being poignant |
| mutability | prone to change : inconstant |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| pariah | a member of a low caste of southern India |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| colander | a perforated utensil for washing or draining food |