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 |
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| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| buoyant | having buoyancy |
| brisk | keenly alert : lively |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |