GRE Word List
DIRE
exciting horror
The meaning of the word dire is exciting horror.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mellifluous | having a smooth rich flow |
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
| motley | variegated in color |
| agglomeration | the action or process of collecting in a mass |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| discount | a reduction made from the gross (see gross |
| hortatory | hortative |