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 |
|---|---|
| cross | a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| nihilist | a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless |