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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| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| unbridled | unrestrained |
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| wan | suggestive of poor health : sickly |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| incrustation | a crust or hard coating |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| demagogue | a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |
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