GRE Word List
DROLL
queer and amusing
The meaning of the word droll is queer and amusing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bouillon | clear beef (or meat) soup |
| disjointed | disconnected; lacking coherence; V. disjoint: disconnect; disjoin |
| baroque | highly ornate |
| impeach | charge (a public official) with crime in office; raise doubts about; indict; Ex. impeach a witness's credibility |
| mortify | humiliate by embarassing excessively; shame; punish the flesh; discipline (one's body) by self-denial; Ex. mortified by her blunder; Ex. mortify the flesh; CF. cause to die |
| pantomime | acting without dialogue; V. |
| append | attach |
| timorous | fearful; timid; demonstrating fear |
| perigee | point of moon's orbit when it is nearest the earth; CF. apogee |
| inter | bury; N. interment |
