GRE Word List
DOUSE
to plunge into water
The meaning of the word douse is to plunge into water.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| venue | locale |
| sentinel | sentry |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| discordant | being at variance : disagreeing |
| flirt | to move erratically : flit |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| poignancy | the quality or state of being poignant |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |