GRE Word List
FINERY
ornament
The meaning of the word finery is ornament.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| crinkle | to form many short bends or ripples |
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| ravine | a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| accessory | an object or device that is not essential in itself but adds to the beauty, convenience, or effectiveness of something else |