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 |
|---|---|
| vivid | very strong : very high in chroma |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| hubris | exaggerated pride or self-confidence |
| breed | to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation |
| wallow | to roll oneself about in a lazy, relaxed, or ungainly manner |