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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |
| mauve | a moderate purple, violet, or lilac color |
| deplore | to feel or express grief for |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| inerrancy | exemption from error : infallibility |