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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craveto ask for earnestly : beg
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regattaa rowing, speedboat, or sailing race or a series of such races
embargoan order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports
detonationthe action or process of detonating
rotundmarked by roundness : rounded
vertebrateany 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
oligarchygovernment by the few