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 |
|---|---|
| stellar | of or relating to the stars : astral |
| appease | pacify |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| bantering | to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| 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 |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| rapture | an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |