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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| ebullient | boiling |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| rare | seldom occurring or found : uncommon |