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 |
|---|---|
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| growl | rumble |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| statute | a law enacted by the legislative branch of a government |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished |