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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| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| invocation | the act or process of petitioning for help or support |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| benison | blessing |
| disclose | to make known or public |
| arboretum | a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes |
| expedite | to accelerate the process or progress of : speed up |
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| astringent | causing a tightening of soft organic tissues : styptic |