GRE Word List
DOLOROUS
causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief
The meaning of the word dolorous is causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief.
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insouciant | lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance |
flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
incontinent | not continent: such as |
ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |
tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
calculated | apt |
levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
termination | end in time or existence : conclusion |
verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |