GRE Word List
CAMEO
a gem carved in relief (see relief
The meaning of the word cameo is a gem carved in relief (see relief.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| replicate | duplicate |
| hoard | a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| goad | to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |