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 |
|---|---|
| crave | to ask for earnestly : beg |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| founder | one that founds or establishes |
| galvanic | of, relating to, or producing a direct current of electricity |
| regatta | a rowing, speedboat, or sailing race or a series of such races |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| oligarchy | government by the few |