GRE Word List
DOUR
stern
The meaning of the word dour is stern.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| renegade | a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another |
| curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |