GRE Word List

DIRE

exciting horror

The meaning of the word dire is exciting horror.

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WordMeaning
magistratean official entrusted with administration of the laws: such as
traverseto go or travel across or over
impalpableincapable of being felt by touch : intangible
disbandto break up the organization of : dissolve
wistfulfull of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy
trekto make one's way arduously
irrevocablenot possible to revoke : unalterable
sticklerone who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something
annihilateto cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains
paupera person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity