GRE Word List
EMBROIDER
to ornament with needlework
The meaning of the word embroider is to ornament with needlework.
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| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| mammal | any 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 |
| debris | the remains of something broken down or destroyed |
| raucous | disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| inordinate | exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |