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 |
|---|---|
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| fluke | flatfish |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |