GRE Word List
DOWSE
to plunge into water
The meaning of the word dowse is to plunge into water.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| antiquated | outmoded or discredited by reason of age : old and no longer useful, popular, or accepted |
| musty | impaired by damp or mildew : moldy |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| unanimity | the quality or state of being unanimous |