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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|---|---|
| maneuver | a military or naval movement |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| turmoil | a state or condition of extreme confusion, agitation, or commotion |
| rapport | a friendly, harmonious relationship |
| multifarious | having or occurring in great variety : diverse |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |