GRE Word List
DOWSE
to plunge into water
The meaning of the word dowse is to plunge into water.
Random words
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indict | to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law |
empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |
encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
aria | air |
sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
relic | an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr |
dilemma | a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice |
temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |