GRE Word List
DOWSE
to plunge into water
The meaning of the word dowse is to plunge into water.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| outmoded | not being in style |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| herd | a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| camaraderie | a spirit of friendly good-fellowship |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |