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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| estranged | having lost former closeness and affection : in a state of alienation from a previous close or familial relationship |
| velocity | quickness of motion : speed |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| progeny | descendants |