GRE Word List
BROOCH
an ornament that is held by a pin or clasp and is worn at or near the neck
The meaning of the word brooch is an ornament that is held by a pin or clasp and is worn at or near the neck.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| flotsam | floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| malediction | curse |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| distend | extend |
| doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |