GRE Word List
ARCADE
a long arched building or gallery
The meaning of the word arcade is a long arched building or gallery.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| indulge | to yield to the desire of : humor |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |
| urchin | hedgehog |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| conversant | having knowledge or experience |
| incontinent | not continent: such as |
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |