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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| dissident | disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |