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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| acme | the highest point or stage |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
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