GRE Word List

DIRE

exciting horror

The meaning of the word dire is exciting horror.

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determinationa judicial decision settling and ending a controversy
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latchto lay hold with or as if with the hands or arms
stringenttight
impassea predicament affording no obvious escape
reveriedaydream