GRE Word List
DIRE
exciting horror
The meaning of the word dire is exciting horror.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antecede | precede |
| spare | not being used |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| dearth | scarcity that makes dear |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |