GRE Word List
FINERY
ornament
The meaning of the word finery is ornament.
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advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
redolent | exuding fragrance : aromatic |
actuarial | of or relating to actuaries |
dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
frieze | a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface |
archives | a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved |
analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |