GRE Word List
DIRE
exciting horror
The meaning of the word dire is exciting horror.
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espouse | marry |
fleet | a number of warships under a single command |
gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
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bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
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skirmish | a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements |
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