GRE Word List
CALLIGRAPHY
artistic, stylized, or elegant handwriting or lettering
The meaning of the word calligraphy is artistic, stylized, or elegant handwriting or lettering.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |
| limn | to draw or paint on a surface |
| jurisprudence | the science or philosophy of law |
| inaugurate | to induct into an office with suitable ceremonies |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| goad | to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |