GRE Word List
DECOLLETE
wearing a strapless or low-necked dress
The meaning of the word decollete is wearing a strapless or low-necked dress.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| enhance | heighten |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| arboreal | of, relating to, or resembling a tree |
| cardinal | a high ecclesiastical official of the Roman Catholic Church who ranks next below the pope and is appointed by him to assist him as a member of the college of cardinals (see college |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| subsidiary | furnishing aid or support : auxiliary |
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |