GRE Word List
FINERY
ornament
The meaning of the word finery is ornament.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
| lope | an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| legato | in a manner that is smooth and connected (as between successive tones) |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| impropriety | an improper or indecorous act or remark |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| usage | firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |