GRE Word List
DULL
tedious
The meaning of the word dull is tedious.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| scrimmage | a minor battle : skirmish |
| fetter | a chain or shackle for the feet |
| imperious | marked by arrogant assurance : domineering |
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| 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 |
| apiarist | beekeeper |