GRE Word List
COUNTENANCE
look
The meaning of the word countenance is look.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| repulse | to drive or beat back : repel |
| politic | political |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| herald | an official at a tournament of arms (see arm |
| bid | to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance |
| hoard | a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away |
| warranty | a real covenant binding the grantor of an estate and the grantor's heirs to warrant and defend the title |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |