GRE Word List
FINERY
ornament
The meaning of the word finery is ornament.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| demerit | offense |
| spin | to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |
| glimmer | to shine faintly or unsteadily |
| coincidence | the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| sextant | an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude) |