GRE Word List
DORSAL
an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar
The meaning of the word dorsal is an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| limpid | marked by transparency (see transparent |
| ingrained | forming a part of the essence or inmost being : deep-seated |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| sledge | sledgehammer |
| machinations | an act of machinating |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| elusive | tending to elude: such as |