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 |
|---|---|
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| alleviate | relieve |
| checkered | marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |