GRE Word List
DISSIPATE
to break up and drive off
The meaning of the word dissipate is to break up and drive off.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vain | having or showing undue or excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements : conceited |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| bliss | complete happiness |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |