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 |
|---|---|
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| discompose | to destroy the composure of |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| odyssey | a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune |
| convene | to come together in a body |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| menagerie | a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition |
| plaudit | an act or round of applause |
| warren | a place legally authorized for keeping small game (such as hare or pheasant) |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |