GRE Word List
ELABORATE
planned or carried out with great care
The meaning of the word elaborate is planned or carried out with great care.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| dissension | disagreement |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| prolixity | unduly prolonged or drawn out : too long |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| vortex | something that resembles a whirlpool |
| cantata | a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment |
| quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |