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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prolificproducing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful
consonantbeing in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord
skimpskimpy
glossarya collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings
emendto correct usually by textual alterations
quislingtraitor
cupidityinordinate desire for wealth : avarice
fusionthe act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat
mammalany 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
epiloguea concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work