GRE Word List
DIRGE
a song or hymn of grief or lamentation
The meaning of the word dirge is a song or hymn of grief or lamentation.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| trifling | lacking in significance or solid worth: such as |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| scowl | to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |