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 |
|---|---|
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| aver | to declare positively |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| dingy | dirty |
| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |