GRE Word List
DIRE
exciting horror
The meaning of the word dire is exciting horror.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| concoct | to prepare by combining raw materials |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| vivid | very strong : very high in chroma |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |
| oaf | a stupid person : boob |
| morose | having a sullen and gloomy disposition |
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |