GRE Word List

FINERY

ornament

The meaning of the word finery is ornament.

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adventthe period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting
redolentexuding fragrance : aromatic
actuarialof or relating to actuaries
dirgea song or hymn of grief or lamentation
initiateto cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going
friezea heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface
archivesa place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved
analgesiainsensibility to pain without loss of consciousness
decompositionto separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds
lasciviousfilled with or showing sexual desire : lewd