GRE Word List
ARCADE
a long arched building or gallery
The meaning of the word arcade is a long arched building or gallery.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| countenance | look |
| plutocracy | government by the wealthy |
| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| 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 |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| spatula | a flat thin implement used especially for spreading or mixing soft substances, scooping, or lifting |