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 |
|---|---|
| aloof | removed or distant either physically or emotionally |
| shrivel | to draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture |
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| sylvan | one that frequents groves or woods |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| offensive | making attack : aggressive |
| accessible | capable of being reached |