GRE Word List
EMBROIDER
to ornament with needlework
The meaning of the word embroider is to ornament with needlework.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| idle | not occupied or employed: such as |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| medley | a musical composition made up of a series of songs or short pieces |
| repertoire | a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a company or person is prepared to perform |