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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| etymology | the 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 |
| panache | an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| amalgamate | to unite in or as if in an amalgam |
| palatable | agreeable to the palate or taste |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
| ethereal | of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| extrude | to force, press, or push out |
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |