GRE Word List
ELABORATION
planned or carried out with great care
The meaning of the word elaboration is planned or carried out with great care.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unrequited | not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| gratify | to be a source of or give pleasure or satisfaction to |
| countenance | look |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| repeal | to rescind or annul by authoritative act |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| reverie | daydream |
| miscellany | separate writings collected in one volume |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |