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 |
|---|---|
| emblazon | to inscribe or adorn with or as if with heraldic bearings or devices |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| institute | something that is instituted: such as |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |