GRE Wordlist 15

Kunal S. (United States of America)
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  1. disinter
    dig up for reburial or for medical investigation
  2. dispassionate
    unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice
  3. disquietude
    feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
  4. disport
    occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
  5. disquisition
    an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion
  6. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  7. dissident
    a person who objects to some established policy
  8. dissimulate
    hide feelings from other people
  9. dissolution
    separation into component parts
  10. dissuade
    turn away from by persuasion
  11. distrait
    having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety
  12. diurnal
    having a daily cycle or occurring every day
  13. diva
    a distinguished female operatic singer
  14. divest
    take away possessions from someone
  15. docket
    a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
  16. doctrine
    a belief accepted as authoritative by some group or school
  17. doctrinaire
    a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
  18. doddering
    mentally or physically infirm with age
  19. doff
    remove
  20. dogged
    stubbornly unyielding
  21. doggerel
    a comic verse of irregular measure
  22. doldrums
    a state of inactivity
  23. doleful
    filled with or evoking sadness
  24. dolorous
    showing sorrow
  25. lugubrious
    excessively mournful
  26. dolt
    a person who is not very bright
  27. poor fish
    a person who is not very bright
  28. pudding head
    a person who is not very bright
  29. domicile
    housing that someone is living in
  30. domineer
    rule or exercise power over in a cruel and autocratic manner
  31. don
    a teacher or tutor, especially at Cambridge or Oxford
  32. dormer
    a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof
  33. dotage
    mental infirmity as a consequence of old age
  34. second childhood
    mental infirmity as a consequence of old age
  35. dowdy
    lacking in stylishness or taste
  36. downcast
    filled with melancholy and despondency
  37. drab
    a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
  38. Draconian
    imposing a harsh code of laws
  39. dregs
    sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid
  40. drivel
    saliva spilling from the mouth
  41. droll
    comical in an odd or whimsical manner
  42. drone
    make a monotonous low dull sound
  43. dross
    worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
  44. drudgery
    hard, monotonous, routine work
  45. dulcet
    pleasing to the ear
  46. mellifluous
    pleasing to the ear
  47. dumbfound
    be a mystery or bewildering to
  48. duplicity
    the act of deceiving or acting in bad faith
  49. lachrymose
    showing sorrow
  50. tenacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  51. pertinacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  52. pillock
    a person who is not very bright
  53. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
  54. dingy
    thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
Created on Sun Aug 10 11:33:17 EDT 2008

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