GRE Word List
BROCADE
a rich silk fabric with raised patterns in gold and silver
The meaning of the word brocade is a rich silk fabric with raised patterns in gold and silver.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discerning | showing insight and understanding : discriminating |
| regatta | a rowing, speedboat, or sailing race or a series of such races |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| corpulent | having a large bulky body : obese |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| consign | to give over to another's care |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| draft | the act of drawing or pulling in a net |