GRE Word List
EMBELLISH
to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate
The meaning of the word embellish is to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prolific | producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful |
| consonant | being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord |
| skimp | skimpy |
| glossary | a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| quisling | traitor |
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
| fusion | the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |