GRE Word List
DOWDY
not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby
The meaning of the word dowdy is not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| catechism | oral instruction |
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| acme | the highest point or stage |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| quisling | traitor |
| relinquish | to withdraw or retreat from : leave behind |