GRE Word List
DROLL
having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality
The meaning of the word droll is having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| shack | hut |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| chasm | a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge |
| complementary | serving to fill out or complete |