GRE Word List
FINESSE
refinement or delicacy of workmanship, structure, or texture
The meaning of the word finesse is refinement or delicacy of workmanship, structure, or texture.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| occlude | to close up or block off : obstruct |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| autonomous | having the right or power of self-government |
| minatory | having a menacing quality |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| lectern | a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker |