GRE Word List
FIGURINE
a small carved or molded figure : statuette
The meaning of the word figurine is a small carved or molded figure : statuette.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| listless | characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| unsavory | insipid |
| sinuous | of a serpentine or wavy form : winding |
| acclaim | applaud |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |