GRE Word List
DISPATCH
to send off or away with promptness or speed
The meaning of the word dispatch is to send off or away with promptness or speed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cursive | running |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| coalesce | to grow together |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| forlorn | bereft |