GRE Word List
DOWSE
to plunge into water
The meaning of the word dowse is to plunge into water.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| rabble | a disorganized or confused collection of things |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| cardiologist | the study of the heart and its action and diseases |
| deify | to make a god of |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| chorus | a company of singers and dancers in Athenian drama participating in or commenting on the action |