GRE Word List
ADORN
to enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects
The meaning of the word adorn is to enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects.
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|---|---|
| resolve | to deal with successfully : clear up |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| buttress | a projecting structure of masonry or wood for supporting or giving stability to a wall or building |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| indignation | anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean |
| introspective | characterized by examination of one's own thoughts and feelings : thoughtfully reflective : employing, marked by, or tending to introspection |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| colossal | of, relating to, or resembling a colossus |
| guileless | innocent |
| privy | private |