GRE Word List
GLOSSY
having a surface luster or brightness
The meaning of the word glossy is having a surface luster or brightness.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |
| embroider | to ornament with needlework |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |
| attire | to put garments on : dress |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| debunk | to expose the sham (see sham |