GRE Word List
DOWSE
to plunge into water
The meaning of the word dowse is to plunge into water.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| salubrious | favorable to or promoting health or well-being |
| papyrus | a tall perennial sedge (Cyperus papyrus) of the Nile valley |
| derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| prop | something that props or sustains : support |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| forfeit | something forfeited or subject to being forfeited (as for a crime, offense, or neglect of duty) : penalty |