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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| equivocal | subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse |
| condign | deserved |
| ramification | branch |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
| oratorio | a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery |