GRE Word List
CARAFE
a bottle with a flaring lip used to hold beverages and especially wine
The meaning of the word carafe is a bottle with a flaring lip used to hold beverages and especially wine.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| filch | to steal secretly or casually |
| impediment | something that impedes |
| verisimilar | having the appearance of truth : probable |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
| heterogeneous | consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed |
| dearth | scarcity that makes dear |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| antique | existing since or belonging to earlier times : ancient |