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 |
|---|---|
| incontinent | not continent: such as |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| malcontent | a discontented person: |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| descry | to catch sight of |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| inkling | a slight knowledge or vague notion |