GRE Word List
BAROQUE
highly ornate
The meaning of the word baroque is highly ornate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adversity | great hardship or affliction; misfortune; calamitous event |
| requisition | formal demand or request; Ex. requisition for more computing equipment; V. |
| detrimental | harmful; damaging; N. detriment |
| precept | practical rule guiding conduct; Ex. mother's precept |
| prognosis | forecasted course of a disease; prediction; CF. prognostic |
| communal | held in common; public; of a group of people; of a commune |
| spectral | ghostly; N. specter: spectre; ghost; phantom |
| reparation | compensation (for loss or wrong); amends; Ex. make reparation for the damage; CF. repair |
| glean | gather leavings; gather grain left behind by reapers; gather bit by bit (facts or information) often with difficulty |
| sheathe | place into a case; insert into or provide with a sheath; Ex. He sheathed his dagger; N. sheath: case for a blade |
