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 |
|---|---|
| mischance | bad luck |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| finery | ornament |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| timorous | of a timid disposition : fearful |
| limbo | an abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism |
| statutory | of or relating to statutes |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |