GRE Word List
COUNTENANCE
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nutrient | furnishing nourishment |
| anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music |
| oratorio | a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery |
| speechless | unable to speak : dumb |
| infringe | to encroach upon in a way that violates law or the rights of another |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |