GRE Word List
DOSSIER
a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject
The meaning of the word dossier is a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| libel | a written statement in which a plaintiff in certain courts sets forth the cause of action or the relief sought |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| pudding | blood sausage |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| unison | identity in musical pitch |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |