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 |
|---|---|
| unassuming | not assuming : modest |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| vixen | a female fox |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |
| delve | excavate |