GRE Word List
FINERY
ornament
The meaning of the word finery is ornament.
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| wade | to step in or through a medium (such as water) offering more resistance than air |
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| pariah | a member of a low caste of southern India |
| render | to melt down |
| aver | to declare positively |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| prerogative | an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |