GRE Word List
EMBELLISH
to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate
The meaning of the word embellish is to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
| obituary | a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| animosity | a strong feeling of dislike or hatred : ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude |
| verbalize | to express something in words |
| volley | the flight of the ball (as in volleyball or tennis) or its course before striking the ground |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| pulmonary | of, relating to, affecting, or occurring in the lungs |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |