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.

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ransackto look through thoroughly in often a rough way
replicateduplicate
hoarda supply or fund stored up and often hidden away
decorumliterary and dramatic propriety : fitness
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intractablenot easily governed, managed, or directed
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hinterlandsa region lying inland from a coast
titterto laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle
stricturean abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage