GRE Word List
LOITER
to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle
The meaning of the word loiter is to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| inroad | an advance or penetration often at the expense of someone or something |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| perforate | to make a hole through |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |