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 |
|---|---|
| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| pilfer | steal |
| florescence | a state or period of flourishing |
| tart | agreeably sharp or acid to the taste |
| flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |
| exegesis | exposition |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |