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 |
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| gorge | a narrow passage through land |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| zest | a piece of the peel of a citrus fruit (such as an orange or lemon) used as flavoring |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| jest | a joking or mocking remark |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |