GRE Word List
EXOTIC
introduced from another country : not native to the place where found
The meaning of the word exotic is introduced from another country : not native to the place where found.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unfrock | defrock |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
| carat | a unit of fineness for gold equal to ¹/₂₄ part of pure gold in an alloy |
| creed | a brief authoritative formula of religious belief |
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| acclaim | applaud |