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
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| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| drudgery | dull, irksome, and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor |
| overt | open to view : manifest |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| 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") |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| actuary | clerk |
| leaven | a substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |