GRE Word List
DORMER
a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof
The meaning of the word dormer is a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof.
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permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
trickster | one who tricks: such as |
milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
impolitic | not politic : unwise |
franchise | the right or license granted to an individual or group to market a company's goods or services in a particular territory |
proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |
dignitary | one who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor |
sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
brazen | made of brass |