GRE Word List
DIRE
exciting horror
The meaning of the word dire is exciting horror.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| sidereal | of, relating to, or expressed in relation to stars or constellations : astral |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| illuminate | to supply or brighten with light |
| latch | to lay hold with or as if with the hands or arms |
| stringent | tight |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| reverie | daydream |