GRE Word List
DIRE
exciting horror
The meaning of the word dire is exciting horror.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| cog | a tooth on the rim of a wheel or gear |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| emancipate | to free from restraint, control, or the power of another |
| physiological | of or relating to physiology |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| lax | loose |
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| potentate | ruler |