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 |
|---|---|
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| divulge | to make known (something, such as a confidence or secret) |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| fumble | to grope for or handle something clumsily or aimlessly |
| espionage | the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company |