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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| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| opulence | wealth |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| meter | systematically arranged and measured rhythm (see rhythm |
| clout | a piece of cloth or leather : rag |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| quorum | a select group |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| voyeur | someone who obtains sexual gratification from observing unsuspecting individuals who are partly undressed, naked, or engaged in sexual acts |