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 |
|---|---|
| molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| cantata | a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| apotheosis | the perfect form or example of something : quintessence |
| hereafter | after this in sequence or in time |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| numismatist | the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (such as medals) |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| dismantle | to disconnect the pieces of |