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 |
|---|---|
| unilateral | done or undertaken by one person or party |
| delusive | likely to delude |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| virus | any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that are usually regarded as nonliving extremely complex molecules, that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semipermeable membrane, that are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals, and plants |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |