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.
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| pungent | sharply painful |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
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| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| repulse | to drive or beat back : repel |
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| outrage | an act of violence or brutality |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |