GRE Word List
COIFFURE
a style or manner of arranging the hair
The meaning of the word coiffure is a style or manner of arranging the hair.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| bolster | a long pillow or cushion |
| crass | gross |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| hortatory | hortative |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |