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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| supererogatory | observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |