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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annexto attach as a quality, consequence, or condition
overweeningarrogant
serebeing dried and withered
quintessencethe fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies
cremateto subject to cremation
fatuouscomplacently or inanely foolish : silly
germa small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts
acclaimapplaud
reiterateto state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect
embedto enclose closely in or as if in a matrix