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 |
|---|---|
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |
| bearing | the manner in which one behaves or comports oneself : the manner in which one bears (see bear |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| fraudulent | characterized by, based on, or done by fraud : deceitful |
| unison | identity in musical pitch |