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 |
|---|---|
| sidetrack | siding |
| misconduct | mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities |
| gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language: |
| derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |
| authoritative | having, marked by, or proceeding from authority |
| infer | to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| lunar | crescent |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |