GRE Word List

FINERY

ornament

The meaning of the word finery is ornament.

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baitto persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks
intermittentcoming and going at intervals : not continuous
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torquea force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion
plasticitythe quality or state of being plastic
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