GRE Word List
AMBIENCE
a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere
The meaning of the word ambience is a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| volley | the flight of the ball (as in volleyball or tennis) or its course before striking the ground |
| espionage | the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| monochrome | a painting, drawing, or photograph in a single hue |
| effulgent | radiant splendor : brilliance |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| retiring | reserved |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |