GRE Word List

DIORAMA

a scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening

The meaning of the word diorama is a scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening.

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etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
panachean ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet
paranoiamental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations
amalgamateto unite in or as if in an amalgam
palatableagreeable to the palate or taste
lopsidedleaning to one side
etherealof or relating to the regions beyond the earth
restivestubbornly resisting control : balky
extrudeto force, press, or push out
marto ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil