GRE Word List
DIRE
exciting horror
The meaning of the word dire is exciting horror.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| lap | a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| ram | a male sheep |
| invalidate | to make invalid |