GRE Word List
BEDIZEN
to dress or adorn gaudily
The meaning of the word bedizen is to dress or adorn gaudily.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| lewd | obscene |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |