GRE Word List
CORNICE
the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration
The meaning of the word cornice is the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration.
Random words
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| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| requite | to make return for : repay |
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| dishonor | lack or loss of honor or reputation |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| purveyor | one that purveys |