GRE Word List
DOUR
stern
The meaning of the word dour is stern.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| distend | extend |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| diadem | crown |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| suffragist | one who advocates extension of suffrage especially to women |
| cynical | having or showing the attitude or temper of a cynic: such as |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |